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    From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to rednoise9@REMOVETHIScomcast.net on Sat May 18 05:40:03 2019
    XPost: alt.windows7.general

    On Thu, 16 May 2019 02:02:06 -0400, Nil
    <rednoise9@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:

    At this point I'd be happy just to get LO to see and use my Java >installation. I'm aware of the Java selection uptions dialog box, but
    it never sees the existing installation, and if I use the Add button to >browse to it, LO doesn't find it. On past computers running earlier
    versions of LO, Java magically appeared as it should, but not now. I'm
    new feeling pretty certain that it's a bug in LO.

    All is not lost. I discovered that Base includes a built-in database
    engine called "Firebird Embedded". I don't know if this is something
    new or if I never noticed it before. But I'm able to create a new
    database with it and do all the expected things (create tables and
    queries) to it using the Base interface, which is quite "Access-like".
    I'd still like to link to my Access tables and MySQL, which I think do >require Java, but this is a start.

    LibreOffice was supposed to be "Open Access" but reliance on Java is
    not open access. Is there any similar database program that does not
    rely on Java?


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  • From Nil@21:1/5 to Steve Hayes on Sat May 18 04:19:04 2019
    XPost: alt.windows7.general

    On 17 May 2019, Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote in alt.windows7.general:

    LibreOffice was supposed to be "Open Access" but reliance on Java
    is not open access. Is there any similar database program that
    does not rely on Java?

    I don't see the phrase "open access" associated anywhere with
    Libreoffice, but on closer inspection, LO Base includes a built-in
    database engine, Firebird, that doesn't depend on Java. Also they have
    other database connectors, some of which may or may not depend on Java.
    There's a supposed MS Access connector, but I haven't been able to make
    it work. I'm having trouble with ODBC, too, but I haven't poked at it
    very hard.

    There's also an open source Java, OpenJDK.

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