Build changes for 7176225: Remove JDBC-ODBC Bridge

Ulf Zibis Ulf.Zibis at CoSoCo.de
Mon Oct 29 11:57:07 UTC 2012


Am 26.10.2012 23:39, schrieb Alan Bateman:
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> The JDBC-ODBC bridge has never been in OpenJDK, it's just the make files.

I know, but is it still in Oracle JDK?

> I don't think it has really been necessary for many years anyway as so many JDBC drivers available.

For a quick connection to a MS Access DB it has been useful, even if not perfect.
I'm not aware of any other free or open source JDBC-driver to connect to ...
... and MS Access is widely used by "semi-professionals" ;-)

-Ulf




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