Is there, or did anyone make, a FileMaker client driver for ODBC that works in Linux?

Edited July 3, 201510 yr by ggt667

I've heard reports of people hacking it but I would not recommend it and certainly would never use that in production.  Is JDBC an option instead?

Could be, I have never used JDBC though. I'm quite familiar with the unixODBC project however. How does JDBC work in comparison to ODBC?

Edited July 3, 201510 yr by ggt667

ask the 360works folks

I tried this https://buzz.beezwax.net/2012/01/25/recipe-for-testing-jdbc-connection-to-filemaker-server/ today: 

$ java -Djava.ext.dirs=./ FilemakerJDBCTest
com.filemaker.jdbc.FMSQLException: [FileMaker][FileMaker JDBC] Cannot find any provider supporting AES/ECB/NoPadding
java.lang.NullPointerException

fmjdbc.jar is in my current folder

I also tried the same script on a Mac, same error message for 2 servers, there is definitely something going on, not sure what.

Edited July 9, 201510 yr by ggt667