How can I use hibernate with MS Access?

Question

I want to use hibernate with MS Access. Which dialect should I use and can you give me a sample hibernate configuration file with MS Access?

Answer 1

@Firstthumb. Sorry, this is not really an answer but just expressing a comment. I was in the same boat - considering using MS Access to develop a local tipping competition for the Football World Cup 2010. I could access MS Access directly using the Oledb but as a training exercise to reskill a bunch of Java developers moving to .NET, I wanted to show the usage of nHibernate as the DAO layer.

After investigating the non-availability of a robust and supported dialect from JBoss/Hibernate team and other considerations, I decided to forego the exercise on using MSAccess. I downloaded the free SQL Express 2008 instead.

For those who still want to use MSAccess in .NET, please see this link)