Jackcess is a pure Java library for reading from and writing to MS Access databases. It is not an application. There is no GUI. It's a library, intended for other developers to use to build Java applications. Jackcess is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions for more info.

• Displaying the contents of a table:

  System.out.println(Database.open(new File("my.mdb")).getTable("MyTable").display());

• Creating a new table and writing data into it:

  Database db = Database.create(new File("new.mdb"));
  Column a = new Column();
  a.setName("a");
  a.setSQLType(Types.INTEGER);
  Column b = new Column();
  b.setName("b");
  b.setSQLType(Types.VARCHAR);
  db.createTable("NewTable", Arrays.asList(a, b));
  Table newTable = db.getTable("NewTable");
  newTable.addRow(new Object[] {1, "foo"});

• Copying the contents of a JDBC ResultSet (e.g. from an external database) into a new table:

  Database.open(new File("my.mdb")).copyTable("Imported", resultSet);

• Copying the contents of a CSV file into a new table:

  Database.open(new File("my.mdb")).importFile("Imported2", new File("my.csv"), ",");