Ok, I finally got it to work! I was being silly and using the wrong syntax for the url, which has brackets instead of jdbc:oracle:oci8:@MYHOST:MYPORT:MYDBINSTANCE. I have ocijdbc11.dll and ojdbc6.jar (since I'm using jdk 1.6) in my gf lib folder.
Thanks all for the suggestions.
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