JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver Suitable?

I'm implementing a web site for a small company, so will be using MS Access for the database.
Will a JDBC-ODBC Bridge driver be suitable?
I ask this as I have heard that JDBC-ODBC Bridge drivers are only suitable for testing purposes - not commercial use.
Cheers

Ideally, you should use a third-party driver in your implementation. Not that there's anything wrong with the JDBC-ODBC Driver, but like you said, Sun never really intended it to be used for mainstream applications. It was developed to serve as a generic driver until third party drivers could be developed and released. Now that there's plenty of good third party drivers out there, the use of the JdbcOdbcDriver is really not recommended. Here's a list of current drivers available for MS Access.
http://servlet.java.sun.com/products/jdbc/drivers/search_results.jsp?jdbc_version=0&vendor_name=&cert_mode=and&jdbc_driver_type_mode=and&dbms=6&dbms_mode=and&features_mode=and&results_per_page=20&submit=Search

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