Rebuilding JRE7 jdbc-odbc bridge for Java 8

Question

Has anyone looked into extracting the jdbc-odbc bridge from an earlier and using it with JRE8 ?

• Is it practical / possible to update / improve it to work with Java 8 ?
• Would it be legal ?

Answer 1

Questions of this portation's legality aside, Sun's and Oracle's official positions have long been that --

the [JVM-bundled] JDBC-ODBC Bridge should be considered a transitional solution [...] Oracle does not support the JDBC-ODBC Bridge.

However, my employer, OpenLink Software, has produced enterprise-grade commercial Type 1 Bridges between JDBC and ODBC since Java 1.0, and these are fully compatible with the current Java 8 and any ODBC standard-compliant driver, including Microsoft's ODBC driver for Access. You can learn more here --

• Single-Tier JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver -- a JDBC driver for ODBC data sources
• Single-Tier ODBC-JDBC Bridge Driver -- an ODBC driver for JDBC data sources

Answer 2

While this doesn't exactly answer your question, I was hunting for a free JDBC driver for Access, and found UCanAccess. I had success with this particular driver as a replacement while using SquirrelSQL with Access. Seeing as how your question is tagged ms-access, perhaps this might be an acceptable replacement for you.