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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 3.5 release. The preferred artifact for new applications is mongodb-driver however, we still publish the legacy mongo-java-driver uber-jar.

MongoDB Driver

The MongoDB Driver mongodb-driver is the updated synchronous Java driver that includes the legacy API as well as a new generic MongoCollection interface that complies with a new cross-driver CRUD specification.

important

mongodb-driver is not an OSGi bundle: both mongodb-driver and mongodb-driver-core, a dependency of mongodb-driver, include classes from the com.mongodb package.

For OSGi-based applications, use the mongo-java-driver uber jar instead.


<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>
        <artifactId>mongodb-driver</artifactId>
        <version>3.5.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Note: You can also download the mongodb-driver jar directly from sonatype.

If downloading mongodb-driver manually, you must also download its dependencies: bson and mongodb-driver-core

Uber Jar (Legacy)

For new applications, the preferred artifact is mongodb-driver; however, the legacy mongo-java-driver uber jar is still available. The uber jar contains: the BSON library, the core library, and the mongodb-driver.

Note

The mongo-java-driver artifact is a valid OSGi bundle.


<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.mongodb</groupId>
        <artifactId>mongo-java-driver</artifactId>
        <version>3.5.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Note: You can also download the mongo-java-driver jar directly from sonatype.

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