JDBC Bulk Insert to MS Access

Question

I am trying to do bulk insert to MS Access database from text file. One of the solutions recommended by bbritta is as follows
import java.sql.*;
public class Test3 {
  public static void main(String[] arghs) {
    try {
      Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
      String filename = "C:/DB1.mdb";
      String database =
          "jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=C:/DB1.MDB";
      Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(database, "", "");
      Statement statement = con.createStatement();
      statement.execute("INSERT INTO Table1 SELECT * FROM [Text;Database=C:\\;HDR=YES].[TextFile.txt]");
      statement.close();
      con.close();
    } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
}Whenever I try to use that approach, I get error message
java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Number of query values and destination fields are not the same.
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.createSQLException(JdbcOdbc.java:6958)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.standardError(JdbcOdbc.java:7115)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.SQLExecDirect(JdbcOdbc.java:3111)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcStatement.execute(JdbcOdbcStatement.java:338)
Fields in Access destination tables are exactly the same as in text field and I still get an error message. I could manually import to Access from same file without any problem.
I was wondering if someone out there could suggest another approach.

Answer 1

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1) Is there a type-4 JDBC connector available to
connect directly to MS Access databases and if so
would it be difficult to implement or migrate to?
This is important because dbAnywhere does not appear
to be supported on Windows 2000, which is the
platform we are migrating to. We need to eliminate
dbAnywhere if possible.
By definition no such driver can exist. A type 4 driver is java only and connects directly to the database. Excluding file writes the only connection method is via sockets and there is nothing for a socket to connect to in a MS Access database - MS Access doesn't work that way.
You can look into type 3 driver. I believe there are a number of them. They use an intermediate server. Search here http://industry.java.sun.com/products/jdbc/drivers
You could implement your own using RmiJdbc at http://www.objectweb.org/. However I personally would think that that would require a serious long look at security issues before exposing a solution to the internet.