Re: [mdb-dev] Java version of mdblib

[Dane S. <bl...@ha...>]

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.
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