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From: Jan v. M. <jan...@gm...> - 2008-12-05 09:20:18
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Hello list, Two questions. First of all, is any development being done on this project? From the sourceforge CVS and this mailing list I get the impression that mdbtools is not being developed since three years or so. Second question, is anybody interested in developing mdbtools further? I am currently involved in a project that needs to read and write mdb files from Java. My interest is therefore primarily to get a good Java version of libmdb. Thanks, best regards, -- Jan van Mansum |
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From: Peter B. V. <pe...@dd...> - 2008-12-05 09:46:49
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Jan,<br> <br> we are currently working on the C part of the mdbtools. Not within the sourceforge project but within our own project. We are using it to read the table data an plug it into a MySQL extension. I have already contacted the original admin of the SF project but have not gotten any response so far. So the SF project seems to be in coma. Currently we are upgrading the bibs so it can read the more current JET engines. <br> <br> Cheers,<br> Peter<br> <br> <br> <br> Jan van Mansum schrieb: <blockquote cite="mid:ddd...@ma..." type="cite">Hello list,<br> <br> Two questions.<br> <br> First of all, is any development being done on this project? From the sourceforge<br> CVS and this mailing list I get the impression that mdbtools is not being developed<br> since three years or so.<br> <br> Second question, is anybody interested in developing mdbtools further? I am currently<br> involved in a project that needs to read and write mdb files from Java. My interest<br> is therefore primarily to get a good Java version of libmdb.<br> <br> Thanks, <br> best regards,<br> <br> -- <br> Jan van Mansum<br> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/">http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/</a></pre> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ mdbtools-dev mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mdb...@li...">mdb...@li...</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mdbtools-dev">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mdbtools-dev</a> </pre> </blockquote> <br> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Peter Benjamin Volk Project Head DDEngine</pre> </body> </html> |
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From: Murray C. <mu...@fo...> - 2008-12-05 11:20:53
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Hi Jan There is not a lot of activity here, however there are many like myself who continue to use this library. I'm guessing a little but my feeling is that most of us use mdbtools to simply retrieve information from an mdb file - the data is simply extracted into a CSV file. There was a recent version that provided some basic update functions on an mdb file, however I got the impression that this was not complete - as you can imagine there are lots of conditions a database needs to handle in order to maintain integrity etc. Were you planning on using JNI? I assume there is no way for you to use JDBC and leave the mdb on a windows server? Cheers mc 2008/12/5 Jan van Mansum <jan...@gm...> > Hello list, > > Two questions. > > First of all, is any development being done on this project? From the > sourceforge > CVS and this mailing list I get the impression that mdbtools is not being > developed > since three years or so. > > Second question, is anybody interested in developing mdbtools further? I am > currently > involved in a project that needs to read and write mdb files from Java. My > interest > is therefore primarily to get a good Java version of libmdb. > > Thanks, > best regards, > > -- > Jan van Mansum > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ > _______________________________________________ > mdbtools-dev mailing list > mdb...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mdbtools-dev > > -- Murray Collingwood Focus Computing p +61 415 24 26 24 http://www.focus-computing.com.au |
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From: Jan v. M. <jan...@gm...> - 2008-12-05 13:36:08
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Hi Murray, > > I'm guessing a little but my feeling is that most of us use mdbtools to > simply retrieve information from an mdb file - the data is simply extracted > into a CSV file. > You are probably right. However, some other database writers might want to support writing to mdb, to promote adoption of their own product. (Similar to Open Office supporting "save as ..." MS Word file.) There was a recent version that provided some basic update functions on an > mdb file, however I got the impression that this was not complete - as you > can imagine there are lots of conditions a database needs to handle in order > to maintain integrity etc. > I am afraid you are right again :) That's why I was hoping to find other people who want to write mdb files, so we could get it to work as an open source effort. > > Were you planning on using JNI? I assume there is no way for you to use > JDBC and leave the mdb on a windows server? JNI could be an option, however I would prefer to stay independent of particular OS and native libraries. When building mdbtools I found I needed glib, for instance. We were entertaining the idea of using a Windows Server. If the "mdbtools4j" option proves impractical, we will probably opt for that. Thanks and regards, Jan. |
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From: Dane S. <bl...@ha...> - 2008-12-05 17:16:26
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I am not a dev nor admin either, but just want to echo a concern that the project may not be very active but is yet still a very very critical tool that needs development. Stating the obvious, but .... I'm coming from the GeoSpatial realm where conversion of ESRI 'Geodatabases' to other formats via the mdbtools based driver [1] within the GDAL project is of critical importance to many users switching from the windows platform to unix. But currently the package is challenging be used successfully: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/mdbtools Dane [1] http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgeo.html On Dec 5, 2008, at 5:36 AM, Jan van Mansum wrote: > Hi Murray, > > > I'm guessing a little but my feeling is that most of us use mdbtools > to simply retrieve information from an mdb file - the data is simply > extracted into a CSV file. > > You are probably right. However, some other database writers might > want to support writing to mdb, to promote adoption of their own > product. (Similar to Open Office supporting "save as ..." MS Word > file.) > > There was a recent version that provided some basic update functions > on an mdb file, however I got the impression that this was not > complete - as you can imagine there are lots of conditions a > database needs to handle in order to maintain integrity etc. > > I am afraid you are right again :) That's why I was hoping to find > other people who want to write mdb files, so we could get it to work > as an open source effort. > > > > Were you planning on using JNI? I assume there is no way for you to > use JDBC and leave the mdb on a windows server? > > JNI could be an option, however I would prefer to stay independent > of particular OS and native libraries. When building mdbtools I > found I needed glib, for instance. > > We were entertaining the idea of using a Windows Server. If the > "mdbtools4j" option proves impractical, we will probably opt for that. > > Thanks and regards, > > Jan. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, > Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to > help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/_______________________________________________ > mdbtools-dev mailing list > mdb...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mdbtools-dev |
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From: Calvin S. <cal...@ho...> - 2008-12-05 17:08:59
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I wrote the current Java port and it worked well, if a little dated since I have not followed the changes. This Java port is in the CVS repository for your use, although the website does not mention it. My approach was to convert the C code to Java code thus making the Java port 100% pure Java and runnable on any platform Java supports. I also added a very small JDBC driver so you can use it for basic functions without needing to know anything about mdbtools itslef. It should not take much effort to get it going with the latest release. Contact me off-list if you would like to contract me to do this. Another project you could look at is: jackcess.sourceforge.net Calvin Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:20:15 +0100 From: jan...@gm... To: mdb...@li... Subject: [mdb-dev] Java version of mdblib Hello list, Two questions. First of all, is any development being done on this project? From the sourceforge CVS and this mailing list I get the impression that mdbtools is not being developed since three years or so. Second question, is anybody interested in developing mdbtools further? I am currently involved in a project that needs to read and write mdb files from Java. My interest is therefore primarily to get a good Java version of libmdb. Thanks, best regards, -- Jan van Mansum _________________________________________________________________ Send e-mail faster without improving your typing skills. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_speed_122008 |
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From: Jan v. M. <jan...@gm...> - 2008-12-09 08:07:12
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Hi Calvin, Thanks for your response. I understand the strategy you chose to implement the Java version of mdbtools. Also thanks for the pointer to Jackcess, a project I somehow overlooked when I was searching for mdb libraries. I am currently testing both Jackcess and mdbtools-java. Best regards, Jan. 2008/12/5 Calvin Smith <cal...@ho...> > I wrote the current Java port and it worked well, if a little dated since > I have not followed the changes. > This Java port is in the CVS repository for your use, although the website > does not mention it. > My approach was to convert the C code to Java code thus making the Java > port 100% pure Java and runnable on any platform Java supports. I also > added a very small JDBC driver so you can use it for basic functions without > needing to know anything about mdbtools itslef. > It should not take much effort to get it going with the latest release. > Contact me off-list if you would like to contract me to do this. > Another project you could look at is: jackcess.sourceforge.net > > Calvin > > ------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:20:15 +0100 > From: jan...@gm... > To: mdb...@li... > Subject: [mdb-dev] Java version of mdblib > > > Hello list, > > Two questions. > > First of all, is any development being done on this project? From the > sourceforge > CVS and this mailing list I get the impression that mdbtools is not being > developed > since three years or so. > > Second question, is anybody interested in developing mdbtools further? I am > currently > involved in a project that needs to read and write mdb files from Java. My > interest > is therefore primarily to get a good Java version of libmdb. > > Thanks, > best regards, > > -- > Jan van Mansum > > ------------------------------ > Send e-mail faster without improving your typing skills. Get your Hotmail(R) > account.<http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_speed_122008> > -- Jan van Mansum |
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