JDBC driver MS Access connection

Question

I want connect my MS access file with Java GUI program,but I have problem with connection....

I have Windows 7 64b, and ms office 2007. When I opened the ODBC driver

Answer 1

If you are using Windows 64-bit you probably need to go to this path

C:/Windows/SysWOW64/odbcad32.exe

Then I noticed that you are using the direct path instead creating new System DSN, your direct path is correct till the path to the access file you must give the full path like this :

jdbc:odbc:Driver= Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb);DBQ=path/to/Invertory.mdb"

To get the path you probably need to use java.io.File that have a method returns the abslute path to the file see the example :

import java.sql.*;
public class TestConnection {
    Connection con ;
    Statement st ;
    ResultSet rs ;
    String db;
    public TestConnection (){
        try{
            String path = new java.io.File("Invertory.mdb").getAbsolutePath();
        db ="JDBC:ODBC:Driver=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb); DBQ="+path;
            doConnection();
        } catch(NullPointerException ex){
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }

    }

    public void doConnection(){
        try{
            Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
            con = DriverManager.getConnection(db);
            st = con.createStatement();
            rs = st.executeQuery("select * from Invertory");
            while(rs.next()){
                System.out.println(rs.getObject(1));
            }
        }catch(SQLException | ClassNotFoundException ex){
            System.out.println(ex.toString());

        }

    }
    public static void main(String...argS){
        new TestConnection();
    }
}