Please help, cannot connect to Access database with a jar file

Question

Hi, i created a jar file from my java project, using eclipse.
When i try open the jar through command prompt, the following error is given:
java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Could not find
file '(unknown)'.
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.createSQLException(Unknown Source)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.standardError(Unknown Source)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.SQLDriverConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcConnection.initialize(Unknown Source)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source)
at Methods.con(Methods.java:15)
at LoginScreen.getCmboLogins(LoginScreen.java:80)
at LoginScreen.getJContentPane(LoginScreen.java:65)
at LoginScreen.initialize(LoginScreen.java:46)
at LoginScreen.<init>(LoginScreen.java:31)
at DataUse.main(DataUse.java:25)
No Connection to dataBASE
The program runs fine within eclipse and the database is bundled in the jar.

Answer 1

rohangr wrote:
The program runs fine within eclipse Because the database isn't in the jar.
...and the database is bundled in the jar.That isn't going to work.
The MS ODBC driver (which has absolutely nothing to do with java) expects to find the MS Access file in the windows file system.
And the contents of the jar file does not fit into that requirement.