sun.com.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver

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Where did it go? The JdbcOdbcDriver used to bundled with the jdk, now it is gone. It's also missing from the JDBC 2.0 optional package available from java.sun.com.

What happened to this driver? Does anyone know?

If it's just plain gone now (I know it's old) is there an alternative Open Source JDBC-ODBC bridge available?

I checked sourceforge and freshmeat, and there are a few startup projects, but none that have released files.

Basically what I'm trying to do is develop an interface so I can pull data out of the back end SQL database that powers our Point of Sale systems, and inject that data directly into a QuickBooks .qbw file. I've found a vendor that sales a .qbw to ODBC bridge that cracks the .qbw file open like an ODBC datasource. I wish I could find an open source version of this. Any advice in this area would be greatly appreciated as well.

[blackrax]

greetings,

i haven't used windows in a long long time for development or reliance, but have you checked for the jdbc driver for the actual database? sun's generic odbc driver really lacked in performance.

as for quickbooks; a quick search on sun's java site produced a few results; there doesn't seem to be any open source jdbc driver available; although not what you're looking for, but apparently you can import CSV text files into quickbooks (unsure, but this process may be manual, from within the application - which indeed seems rather annoying). maybe the commercial quickbooks jdbc driver is worth the gold-pressed latinum after all?

//blackrax