title: Accessing Access over JDBC (using ODBC?)
body: <p>I'm looking for a way to open an Access MDB file inside a Java App (using JDBC).</p>
  
  <p>A quick Google Search suggests that I need the JDBC-ODBC Bridge for this...</p>
  
  <p>Does this mean that I need to configure every system I want to run my app on to provide a ODBC DSN for the MDB I want to open?</p>
  
  <p>And one more question (since I've never used ODBC before): will the communication happen over some sort of a socket (in a client/server-style), or through method/function calls (like with an embeded Derby db)?</p>