How to Create ODBC Data Source (DSN) Programmably?

Question

Very troublesome to go to control panel and manually create the Data Source. Anyone know of any free Java Library which enables us to do it from a Java program?

Answer 1

/* 2003/02/06 eric.leung
* Source : HOME
import java.sql.*;
import java.lang.*;
public class ejdbcsel {
     public static void main(String args[]) {
          // eric_jsp is ODBC User DNS
          // String url = "jdbc:odbc:eric_jsp";     
          // Using DSNless connection
          String url = "";
          url = "jdbc:odbc:DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}" +
          ";SERVER=127.0.0.1;DBQ=c:\\example\\ERIC_JSP.mdb";
          Connection con;
          String query;
          query = "select * from pt_mstr";     
          Statement stmt;
     try {     
          Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
     } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
          System.err.print("ClassNotFoundException " );
          System.err.println(e.getMessage());
     try {
          con = DriverManager.getConnection (url,"","");
          stmt = con.createStatement();
          ResultSet rec = stmt.executeQuery(query);          
          // Scan the Database
          while(rec.next()) {
               System.out.println(rec.getString("pt_part") + "\t"
               + rec.getString("pt_desc"));     
          stmt.close();
          con.close();
     } catch (SQLException ex) {
          System.err.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
     catch (Exception e) {
          System.err.println("Error: " + e.toString() + " " + e.getMessage());