[ale] Need to connect to a MS Access database from Linux

[Christopher Fowler]

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:38, Geoffrey wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Is there a Perl module?  Then the perl code could emit XML that the java
> > could easily read?
> 
> I believe there is, but worst case, you could use the ODBC module.

Doesn't the ODBC module still require a driver underneath?  ODBC is
simply an abstraction to all these proprietary communication protocols
to the different SQL database variants.  Perl's DBI module is an example
of abstracting the low-level communications.