For MS Access I think you do not have a choice but to use the JDBC-ODBC Bridge.
<EDIT> At least thats what I thought before I came across
this page </EDIT>
Also if you would like to connect to your database with out creating a DSN by using the following connection string:-
"jdbc:odbc:Driver={MicroSoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ={PATH_TO_MDB_FILE}"
Just replace {PATH_TO_MDB_FILE} with the absolute path to your MS Access file.
By the way why are you using such an old version of the JDK ???
I do not really understand why people do not use free available MySQL Community Server
I can round up all the possible reasons from that in word "IGNORANCE".
Last edited by stephen84s; Sep 29th, 2008 at 3:30 pm.