Question

I am trying to connect to MS-Access using JDBC:ODBC:

public boolean connectToAccess(String accessFilePath) {
    //Get connection to database
    try {
        Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
        myConnection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc: odbc: driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=" + accessFilePath);
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        System.out.println(ex);
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

I get the error:
“No suitable driver found for jdbc: odbc: driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=file.mdb”
Why?
Can you suggest another way of reading access files in Java?

Answer 1

Take those spaces out of the connection string and see if that helps. I’d also recommend printing the stack trace.

public boolean connectToAccess(String accessFilePath) {
    //Get connection to database
    try {
        Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
        myConnection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=" + accessFilePath);
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}