Jackcess

Jackcess is a pure Java library for reading from and writing to MS Access databases. It is part of the OpenHMS project from Health Market Science, Inc. . It is not an application. There is no GUI. It's a library, intended for other developers to use to build Java applications. Jackcess is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License . Take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions for more info.

Sample code

• Displaying the contents of a table:

  System.out.println(Database.open(new File("my.mdb")).getTable("MyTable").display());
  

• Creating a new table and writing data into it:

  Database db = Database.create(new File("new.mdb"));
  Table newTable = new TableBuilder("NewTable")
    .addColumn(new ColumnBuilder("a")
               .setSQLType(Types.INTEGER)
               .toColumn())
    .addColumn(new ColumnBuilder("b")
               .setSQLType(Types.VARCHAR)
               .toColumn())
    .toTable(db);
  newTable.addRow(1, "foo");
  

• Copying the contents of a JDBC ResultSet (e.g. from an external database) into a new table:

  Database.open(new File("my.mdb")).copyTable("Imported", resultSet);

• Copying the contents of a CSV file into a new table:

  Database.open(new File("my.mdb")).importFile("Imported2", new File("my.csv"), ",");

Other Resources

• Jackcess-JDBC - Open Source JDBC driver with read-only support for Access databases (by proxying the data through JavaDB)
• mdbtools - Open Source project for reading Access files, written in C.