Driver for MS Access in java

Question

My requirement is to use MS Access database using java.

What would be the best solution? Should I download and use sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver or should I follow the usual way of connecting to Access database by configuring it in WIndows system?

The application will run on Windows system and I am using Ubuntu for development.

What will be the best approach?

Answer 1

The JdbcOdbcDriver would work in JDK7 or below but it was removed in JDK8 and if you're using Ubuntu for development that won't work anyway; the odbc->Jdbc bridge is dependent on Windows.

You can look at a cross-platform solution: UCanAccess . It's at worth looking at with your circumstances.