What is the best opensource dbf driver for java? [closed]

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Can anybody please mention the best available opensource odbc:jdbc driver to read / write dbf.? I have a dbf file which I would like to query (select/update) via a web application (Tomcat app).

Any help/tips would be appreciative.

Thank you.

Answer 1

try
        {
            Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
            String connString="jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft dBASE Driver (*.dbf)};DefaultDir=E:\\db";//DeafultDir indicates the location of the db
            Connection connection=DriverManager.getConnection(connString);
            String sql="SELECT * FROM table_name where condition";// usual sql query
            Statement stmt=connection.createStatement();
            ResultSet resultSet=stmt.executeQuery(sql);
            while(resultSet.next())
            {
                System.out.println();
            }
            System.out.println();
        }
        catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (SQLException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

It works. And I guess there will be no need to explore for other (open/closed) apis as Java has provided an excellent way to read/write dbf.

Thank you all.

Answer 2

You can try to use https://github.com/iryndin/jdbf - a simple Java library to read/write DBF files. I am the author of this library and it works quite good in my production apps. It is very simple.

Please give it a try.

Answer 3

dans-dbf is a good option to access dbf files, but it has a custom api (ie: not sql).

I would recommend you to dump the dbf files into db tables (mysql with myisam engine will do the trick or innodb if transaction/consistency checking is required).

Then you can dump back to dbf as needed.