And Access uses a proprietary (imagine that) form of SQL that is supported only by Microsoft ODBC-JDBC drivers (imagine that). And Milt is correct, the bridge drivers are not recommended for production use.
Mark -----Original Message----- From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ms Access and Java Servlets-Applet On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, RUTHERFURD, Michael wrote: > > I'm not an MS person, but pretty much all I've heard about using > > Access with servlets can be summed up in one word: Don't. (Yes, a > > contraction counts as one word! :-) > > > > Milt Epstein > > Milt, were any reasons given (technical, not evil empire)? I'm > interested as I'm currently having to simulate the prod DB in ms > access (the prod db will be a funky teradata box but they haven't > got the hardware yet). Yes, the reasons were technical (e.g. things didn't work well, both because of Access and the JDBC-ODBC bridge -- which I believe isn't recommended for production use). I don't really recall details, but that's what the archives are there for, no? Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
