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AFAIK MS Access should be there to open and manipulate the data in mdb file<br />
Therefore a windows platform is needed<br />
<a href="http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=650819" rel="ugc">http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=650819</a><br />
<a href="http://database.ittoolbox.com/documents/popular-q-and-a/using-ms-access-database-with-java-2136" rel="ugc">http://database.ittoolbox.com/documents/popular-q-and-a/using-ms-access-database-with-java-2136</a>
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AFAIK MS Access should be there to open and manipulate the data in mdb file
Therefore a windows platform is needed
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=650819 [http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=650819]
http://database.ittoolbox.com/documents/popular-q-and-a/using-ms-access-database-with-java-2136 [http://database.ittoolbox.com/documents/popular-q-and-a/using-ms-access-database-with-java-2136]

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what u tried to say is that it won't work if the mdb is placed inside Linux platform ??I know it will work in windows as i managed to access it even without the need to install ms access program. but can it work in Linux?
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what u tried to say is that it won't work if the mdb is placed inside Linux platform ??I know it will work in windows as i managed to access it even without the need to install ms access program. but can it work in Linux?

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&gt; i managed to access it even without the need to install ms access<br />
I didn't know that<br />
What is you driver class and connection url ?
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> i managed to access it even without the need to install ms access
I didn't know that
What is you driver class and connection url ?

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I placed an Ms Access database (aaa.mdb) in Linux and tried to access it using Java but to no avail. it came out nullpointerexception in the statement Class.forName(&quot;sun.org....<wbr />.&quot;).<br />
Is it possible to access it and do i need a special driver?
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I placed an Ms Access database (aaa.mdb) in Linux and tried to access it using Java but to no avail. it came out nullpointerexception in the statement Class.forName("sun.org.....").
Is it possible to access it and do i need a special driver?

Accessing Ms Access database in Linux using Java

Java is a platform-independent, object-oriented programming language and run-time environment, designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible such that developers can write one set of code across all platforms using libraries. Most devices will not run Java natively, and require a run-time component to be installed in order to execute a Java program.