JDBC and FM Unlimited!

[bhavanams]

Hi ,

Is there anyone working on filemaker with JDBC.I mean accessing a filemaker database from java.I have Filemaker Unlimited.I want to access unlimited database from java.What soud i do, i know i have to use Filemaker JDBC Driver.But where to get that, I checked for all drivers in the control pannel but JDBC driver was not there.

Is it possible to use UNlimited and JDBC.If so can anybody help me by giving some information on where to find JDBC driver and A snippet of coding.

Thanx in advance

sree

[AlMalossi]

Hey

JDBC Driver are part of the FM5 Developer suite, which cost quite a lot of money, if you just need the driver.

I tryed to work with jdbc-drivers but i gave up after recognizing (99% sure) that the jdbc-drivers on the cd are just jdk1.2 compatible, but not jdk1.3. I found no update on the support of filemaker.com

so we didn't want to stuck in the past. We decided to use the xml interface from FM5 Pro to import data into our java application.

unfortunatly xml makes also some problems.... (see my other posting)

[Rob_Saul]

My experience corroborates AlMalossi's. I reported this problem to

FileMaker last August and have heard abolutely nothing back from them

regarding it. I'd say the JDBC support is just there so the marketing

folks can add another check box to the product literature.

If you have to use FileMaker you might be able to go the ODBC route using

the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver that comes with the JDK, provided your Java

app is also running in Mac/Win. If it isn't matters get complicated fast.