Java and Ms access conection and modification

Question

Hello everyone,
I have two problems:
1. I need to create tool that will create a test database and later on to populate it. The first problem is connected with creating the file. I do not know whether this is possible or not, but I want to create a file in which later on I can create tables and insert some values in the tables.
2. In this problem I want to input meaningfull values in the database columns? I do not know how this could be done.
Also at the moment I am have created the application and connect the application with a database file created from MS Access, with ODBC driver through the Control Panel.. What I mean to do is to create dinamicaly file according to the user input, and to populate that file with meaningfull data(values) later on. This is all done automatically, the user do not have to insert the values in the database, but through For loop at the moment I am inserting some kind of values, rows in the database, according the users input.
Any tips and help regarding any of the two above problems will be appreciated.
Thanks to everyone,
Borce.

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply. How do you mean to make a copy
of a "empty" file? From the command line....
copy empty.db mystuff.db
In your java code you do the same.
To create one file with MS Access
and than to use the copy of this file? If this is
what you mean thanks a lot, I thought that idea, but
I did had time to work on it. Yes that is one way,
and I will check whether it will work, if the user
changes the name of the file into something else.
That is the only way unless you want to use JNI and OLE (and I am only guessing that it is possible to do it that way.)
Also I have one more question, is it possible to use
the file, what I mean by use is to create table in it
or to insert values if I have not set this file to be
the database file in the Control Panel? Search for "DSN-less" connection strings for MS Access in this forum. The url must be exact or it will not work.
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For the second problem, what I mean by meaningfull
data is that if the name of the column is "Name" to
put some kind of characters or to input from file. I
beleave that the meaningfull data. :) Still doesn't mean anything.
If you just want to populate the initial database with a small amount of data then just do it manually. Then that is what you use for the initial copy.
If it is more complicated then you can either use the MS Access import feature in the GUI (and still do the above copy) or you write some java code, perhaps getting the data from a file or not (up to you.)