[mdb-dev] Write Support - Port or write?

[Houston, D. A Sr C. M. U. O. <dio...@us...>]

Hi all,

Once again, I'm looking at this project to add to the GDAL project to import/export files in a MDB compatible format.  In desiring to make it as open as possible, I don't intend to use Jet.

As we all know, write support is currently only partially supported in the source.  I am aware of another MDB library which does support writing called Jackcess, http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/ .  I am neither proficient in Java, nor highly knowledgeable on the Jet database format (although I did use to work in the group).  It seems like there are two main options:

- Figure out the write code, possibly using Jackcess and incorporate it into MDB Tools

- Port Jackcess to C++

Based on collective experience of the group, does anyone have any analysis or recommendations of what would be easier?  I looked over the Java source and it doesn't seem too complicated, but I don't know what I don't know about porting Java.  On the other hand, I don't really know where to begin on adding write support to MDB Tools, but I am highly comfortable with C/C++.

Thanks in advance for any wisdom you can impart…

Dion