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There are two Maven artifacts available in the 3.0 release. The preferred artifact for new applications is mongodb-driver
however, we still publish the legacy mongo-java-driver uber-jar.
The recommended way to get started using one of the drivers in your project is with a dependency management system.
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The 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.
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For OSGi-based applications: due to the fact that there are classes from the com.mongodb package in both this artifact and in the
mongodb-driver-core artifact, on which this depends, this artifact is not an OSGi bundle. Please use the mongo-java-driver uber
jar (described below) instead.
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{{< install artifactId="mongodb-driver" version="3.0.4" dependencies="true">}}
An uber jar that contains everything you need; the BSON library, the core library and the mongodb-driver.
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{{< install artifactId="mongo-java-driver" version="3.0.4" >}}