List odbc data-source names

hello,
i would like to show (System.out.println) all odbc data-source names,
which are installed on the machine. whats a common way?
can somebody help me please? thanks!
regards.

Sorry there is no such mehtods or classes in java
for doing this activity
one thing u can do is this
i dont dont know much about windows programming
but i think that we we manually created a datasource by click odbc tab and then adding a datasource assosiating a mdb file to it
then in wondows surely some where it must have registerd
say for example there must be a datasource .ini file
now if this is true then u can do one thing
.ini file is similar to a text file
u can read this file thru FileReader class
and just extract the name sof datasource this is the obly option
\u just need to find where this datasource.ini file is located if at all it is
if u satisfied with my answer i am waiting for my dukes
bye

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