Hi, I also feel sorry for jettisoning the JDBC-ODBC-bridge from the JDK. What does it harm to leave it?
Would it be possible to have the sources in a java.net project, so people could use it via the Extension class loader?
-Ulf Am 26.10.2012 22:14, schrieb John Yeary:
Hello All, Out of curiosity what will replace it? I looked at the transitional notification[1], but it leaves me feeling a little uneasy about it. At one point, I worked on a number of "simple" applications which used MS Access as the database for a Java Swing front end. The only driver to connect these applications was the JDBC-ODBC bridge. A number of those applications are still around today. Is it safe to assume that the users will not upgrade their systems? When JDK 8 comes out, their applications will fail. I realize that I have come late to the conversation on this since the removal is almost completed, but I see an issue cropping up in the future. John [1] http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/technotes/guides/jdbc/bridge.html ____________________________ John Yeary ____________________________ *NetBeans Dream Team* *President Greenville Java Users Group Java Users Groups Community Leader Java Enterprise Community Leader* ____________________________ <http://javaevangelist.blogspot.com/> <https://twitter.com/jyeary> <http://www.youtube.com/johnyeary> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jyeary> <https://plus.google.com/112146428878473069965> <http://www.facebook.com/jyeary> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/JavaEvangelistJohnYearysBlog> <http://netbeans.org/people/84414-jyeary> "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt
