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faq
Here you can find more about this project.
What is the jbdc4mdb project?
Why?
Who is involved in this?
When will the driver be available?
How can I help?
Will this really be a type 4 driver?
What is the jbdc4mdb project?
The jdbc4mdb project is an open-source free software project to create a type 4* JDBC driver for MDB (Access) databases.
This project is being hosted by sourceforge.
Why?
Why create a JDBC driver for Access? Well currently you need to use the JdbcOdbcBridge Driver to connect to Access and there are some limitations in that. The advantages that I forsee for this driver include
- A portable solution for connecting on different platforms
- Better support for MetaData
- Support for transactions
- Less (hopefully none) of the quirks in the ODBC implementation on which the bridge driver relies
- The driver will have source so developers will have more control over their use of the driver
Who is involved in this?
Currently this project is a one man band consisting of me, Max Stocker. I am a Java developer among other things. I also do a lot of work in ASP, PHP and general database development. I can often be found in the Sun JDC Forums (especially the JDBC one) where my username is scsi-boy.
If you haven't guessed already I have an abnormal interest in databases. Which is good for this project I suppose. I also have a decent sense of humour which will probably also help this project significantly.
If you are interested in helping please see How can I help?
When will the driver be available?
My new current goal is to have the beta release of the driver available by the September. (Originally I had hoped for earlier but time constraints being what they are :( ) I will continue to post updates on this site as the date approaches. You can also check the progress on the history page.
How can I help?
If you would like to help out on this project please visit this page for instructions on contacting me (the project admin) through sourceforge and lending a hand. Both testing and development help would be greatly appreciated.
If you would like to just give some moral support (aka words of encouragement) please visit the open discussion forum for this project here.
Will this really be a type 4 driver?
Short answer: no.
Long answer: this driver will be pure Java so in that way it is a type 4 model. However Access is by it's nature a desktop database. This driver will not automagically turn it into a service.