Allow to add shared lib for all drivers

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. My custom JDBC driver library depends on yet another jar (an SDK) that can only be loaded once, not per driver, and so I need to load it in a parent class loader, not as a driver-specific lib in drivers manager

Describe the solution you’d like A command-line option to prepend the parent class loader’s classpath

Describe alternatives you’ve considered I tried dbeaver -vmargs -classpath /path/to/sdk/jar and CLASSPATH=/path/to/sdk/jar dbeaver but the SDK’s class that’s needed by the custom JDBC driver still can not be found.

Additional context Everything works if I load the SDK as a driver library, but this approach has unacceptable limitations including

• only one driver may be used concurrently because the SDK employs static variables
• some drivers can not be used at all because the SDK is not loaded by the parent class loader

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Implemented and will be available in DBeaver 21.2.4.

You can specify any amount of JAR files you want to use “globally”.

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Hello @qrkourier,

Thanks for feature request.

We can provide a way to specify global libraries that will be shared between all drivers.