How to connect java to Ms Access 2010?

Question

Does anyone have any ideas of how to connect Access 2010 to java jdbc. I use this method, but when I call it, it doesn't work:

public void loadDb(){
   try{
       Class.forName("sun.jdbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
       File f = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"))       
       con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Acess Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)}; DBQ="+ f.getPath() + "//db//JavaAccess.accd","","");
       st = con. createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE, ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE);
   }catch(ClassNotFoundException e){e.printStackTrace();
   }catch(SQLException e){e.printStackTrace();}
}

//con and st are already defined

Solution 1

According to msdn it should be sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver. So replace this line of code:

Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");

Solution 2

Spelling error? Perhaps this line:

con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Acess Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)}; DBQ="+ f.getPath() + "//db//JavaAccess.accd","","");

should be

con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb)}; DBQ="+ f.getPath() + "//db//JavaAccess.accd","","");

Access has 2 C's

Solution 3

Create connection

public static Connection getConnection() {
     String driver = "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver";
        String url = "jdbc:odbc:anime"; //anime is the database
        String username = "ipieluser"; //leave blank if none
        String password = "ipielpassword"; //leave blank if none
        try {
      Class.forName(driver);
     } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
     }
        try {
      return DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
     } catch (SQLException e) {
      // TODO Auto-generated catch block
      e.printStackTrace();
     }
     return null;
    }

How to call:

public static void main(String args[]) {
 try {
  Connection conn = getConnection();
     Statement st = conn.createStatement();
     st = conn.createStatement();
     ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM localTable");     

  //get and displays the number of columns
     ResultSetMetaData rsMetaData = rs.getMetaData();
  int numberOfColumns = rsMetaData.getColumnCount();
     System.out.println("resultSet MetaData column Count=" + numberOfColumns);

     st.close();
     conn.close();
 } catch(Exception e) {
  System.out.println(e.getMessage());
 }
}

Solution 4

Use UCanAccess JDBC Driver :

Class.forName("net.ucanaccess.jdbc.UcanaccessDriver");  // can be omitted in most cases
Connection conn=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:ucanaccess://<mdb or accdb file path>",user, password); 

e.g.:

Connection conn=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:ucanaccess://c:/pippo.mdb");

So for your example it will be

con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:ucanaccess://"+f.getPath()+"/db/JavaAccess.accd")

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Comments

[Tepken Vannkorn]

hi guy, I still cannot access to the getConnection() method since it says that the type is void cannot be return, and on the other hand, it doesn't recognize the method getConnection() in some other palces.

[Rishabh]

Declare it as public it will work I have edited the code too.

[Barett]

This is a better solution for 64-bit systems running Office 64-bit. You may also need the Access Database Engine to expose the 32-bit Access database via a 64-bit interface. (microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13255)