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- <faqs title="Frequently Asked Questions">
-
- <part id="general">
- <title>General</title>
-
- <faq id="linux">
- <question>Does this work on Linux/Unix?</question>
- <answer>
- <p>Yep, Jackcess is pure Java. It will work on any
- Java Virtual Machine (1.4+).</p>
- </answer>
- </faq>
-
- <faq id="formats">
- <question>What Access formats does it support?</question>
- <answer>
- <p>Jackcess currently supports <i>only</i> Access 2000
- databases. Access 2003 is not supported.</p>
- </answer>
- </faq>
-
- <faq id="mdbtools">
- <question>
- How is this different from
- <a href="http://mdbtools.sf.net">mdbtools</a>?
- </question>
- <answer>
- <p>
- We want to give a lot of credit to mdbtools. They have
- been around much longer than Jackcess, and, along with
- <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/poi">POI</a>,
- inspired us that a project like this could be done.
- mdbtools is written in C. There is a Java port of it,
- but if you've ever read or used a Java port of a C
- library, you can appreciate the difference between such
- a library and one written from scratch in Java.
- </p>
- <p>
- At the time of this writing, mdbtools could only read
- Access databases. Jackcess can also write to them.
- According to their web site, "Write support is currently being
- worked on and the first cut is expected to be included in the
- 0.6 release." This status hasn't changed since we first
- started work on Jackcess.
- </p>
- <p>
- mdbtools supports Access 97 databases, which Jackcess does not.
- The Java port of mdbtools also includes an implementation of
- a small subset of the JDBC APIs. Jackcess does not currently,
- but a pure Java JDBC driver for Access could certainly be written
- on top of Jackcess.
- </p>
- </answer>
- </faq>
-
- <faq id="poi">
- <question>
- This looks like a logical addition to
- <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/poi">POI</a>. Why not integrate
- with that project?
- </question>
- <answer>
- <p>
- POI is released under
- <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html">The Apache License</a>.
- Jackcess is released under
- <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">The GNU Lesser General Public License</a>.
- The Apache license allows closed-source and/or commercial forks.
- The LGPL does not. If you change or enhance Jackcess, you must contribute
- your changes back to the project.
- </p>
- </answer>
- </faq>
-
- <faq id="odbc">
- <question>
- I'm using the JDBC/ODBC bridge. Why should I try Jackcess?
- </question>
- <answer>
- <p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- Portability - With Jackcess, your app has one less dependency on Windows.
- </li>
- <li>
- Speed - We had an app that used the ODBC bridge to write data to an
- Access database. When we switched it over to use Jackcess, it was 5 times faster.
- </li>
- <li>
- Stability - With large amounts of data, we found the ODBC brige to be
- pretty unreliable.
- </li>
- <li>
- Simplicity - With Jackcess, there is no ODBC configuration to set up.
- </li>
- </ul>
- </p>
- </answer>
- </faq>
-
- <faq id="jdk">
- <question>What version of the JDK does this require?</question>
- <answer>
- <p>
- Version 1.0 requires JDK 1.4 or higher. The version in CVS HEAD and future releases
- will require JDK 1.5 or higher.
- </p>
- </answer>
- </faq>
-
- <faq id="hms">
- <question>Who is Health Market Science?</question>
- <answer>
- <p>
- HMS is a small company located in suburban Philadelphia.
- Using proprietary matching and consolidation software,
- HMS scientifically manufactures the most comprehensive
- and accurate healthcare data sets in the market today.
- <a href="http://www.healthmarketscience.com/company/careers.html">We're hiring!</a>
- HMS is always looking for talented individuals, especially
- <a href="http://www.healthmarketscience.com/company/jobs/developer.html">Java developers</a>.
- </p>
- </answer>
- </faq>
-
- <faq id="bugs">
- <question>It doesn't work!</question>
- <answer>
- <p>
- Ok, that wasn't a question, but we'll try to respond anyway. :)
- Jackcess is young, and not that robust yet. As you might imagine,
- it's kind of hard to test, simply by its nature. There are
- bugs that we are aware of, and certainly many more that we are not.
- If you find what looks like a bug, please
- <a href="http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=134943&atid=731445">report it.</a>
- Even better, fix it, and
- <a href="http://sf.net/tracker/?group_id=134943&atid=731447">submit a patch.</a>
- </p>
- </answer>
- </faq>
-
- </part>
-
- </faqs>
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