what to do about no jdbc:odbc bridge in Oxygen 17

[Doug]

I knew this was coming. Now what? Oxygen 17 users Java 8 which no longer includes the jdbc:odbc bridge. I've been using this to connect to Microsoft Access databases and run queries with saxon http://saxon.sf.net/sql extensions. What is the best strategy to replace this bridge?

Thanks,
Doug

[Radu]

Hi Doug,

You are right, we knew when we migrated to using the latest Java 1.8 version that the JDBC-ODBC bridge was removed. But we also wanted to benefit of various bug fixes which are made in each new Java release.

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... ource.html

I think you would have two options right now:

1) In the Oxygen installation folder there is a jre folder containing the Java version which comes bundled with it. If you rename it to something else, Oxygen will run with the default Java installed on your computer. So you can thus control the used Java version, ideally it should at least be Java 1.7.

2) You can google for JDBC-ODBC bridge alternatives and see if you find a solution which works. I have not tested myself any alternative so I cannot be certain of what is good quality or not.

Regards,
Radu

[Doug]

Thanks Radu. That's about what I figured but wanted to confirm it.