[Bug]: Hop is shipped with jdbc driver of mssqlnative. Should it?

[gijoe88]

Apache Hop version?

2.3.0 and Development

Java version?

11.0.18

Operating system

Windows

What happened?

In the zip downloaded

In the docker for hop-web

docker run --rm --name hop-mssql apache/hop-web:Development ls -al --color /usr/local/tomcat/plugins/databases/mssqlnative/lib
# total 1192
# drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Feb 17 09:02 .
# drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 Feb 17 09:02 ..
# -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1209660 Nov 14  2019 mssql-jdbc-7.4.1.jre8.jar

In the docker for hop-server

docker run -d --rm --name hop-mssql apache/hop:Development
docker exec -it hop-mssql ls -al --color /opt/hop/hop/plugins/databases/mssqlnative/lib
# total 1192
# drwxr-xr-x    2 hop      hop           4096 Feb 17 09:02 .
# drwxr-xr-x    3 hop      hop           4096 Feb 17 09:02 ..
# -rw-r--r--    1 hop      hop        1209660 Nov 14  2019 mssql-jdbc-7.4.1.jre8.jar

The packages all come with a JDBC driver for mssqlnative shipped inside. According to the help page, this should not be the case, and a download link is provided.

Issue Priority

Priority: 3

Issue Component

Component: Other

[bamaer]

shipping with the MS SQL native JDBC driver is not a problem, as this driver is distributed with the MIT license.
we could definitely upgrade to a newer driver version.