Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: programming...? Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:35:57 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <5b01869b-a71c-44db-b6e5-e4afdd6c561e@googlegroups.com> <019a6f92-4628-4963-9663-6ebda4b6fbeb@googlegroups.com> <05774d29-33a9-4eb8-ac90-d81dd39dcac5@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38071 On 2/21/2018 1:40 PM, Eric Douglas wrote: > On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 11:54:46 AM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> I don't recommend MS Access for anything, but anything we used to do >>> at my current job in Access I can do with my Java API. >> >> Access is certainly not Java friendly. >> > When I said we can do with my Java API, I meant complete rewrite not > integrate, although MS does provide a JDBC driver for Access. (not sure > about current version Access, our databases were set up on Office 2000) I believe they provided ODBC driver and SUN provided JDBC ODBC bridge. But that bridge has been removed from recent Oracle Java versions. >> Embedded database are quite common in Java: JavaDB, HSQLDB, H2 etc.. > > I wonder how common in business. The help wanted ads I've found > reference SQL like specifically Oracle, don't think I've seen references > to those. I haven't tested anything like that, though I had it on my > list to check out MongoDB. I believe they are used. But usually not as main database, so they rarely make it for the job ads. HSQLDB is used by OpenOffice/LibreOffice. JavaDB ship with Oracle Java. Many Java server applications use HSQLDB or H2 for development and then switch to one of the big databases for production. Arne