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Installation

The recommended way to get started using one of the drivers in your project is with a dependency management system.

There are two Maven artifacts available in the release. The preferred artifact for new applications is mongodb-driver-sync however, we still publish the legacy mongodb-driver-legacy jar.

MongoDB Driver Sync

The MongoDB Driver mongodb-driver-sync is the synchronous Java driver containing only the generic MongoCollection interface that complies with a new cross-driver CRUD specification. It does not include the legacy API (e.g. DBCollection).

important

This is a Java 9-compliant module with an Automatic-Module-Name of org.mongodb.driver.sync.client.

The mongodb-driver-sync artifact is a valid OSGi bundle whose symbolic name is org.mongodb.driver-sync.


<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>
        <artifactId>mongodb-driver-sync</artifactId>
        <version>4.3.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

MongoDB Driver Legacy

The MongoDB Legacy driver mongodb-driver-legacy is the legacy synchronous Java driver whose entry point is com.mongodb.MongoClient and central classes include com.mongodb.DB, com.mongodb.DBCollection, and com.mongodb.DBCursor.

important

While not deprecated, we recommend that new applications depend on the mongodb-driver-sync module.


<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>
        <artifactId>mongodb-driver-legacy</artifactId>
        <version>4.3.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
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