how to specify the database connector like odbc jdbc for connecting to an msaccess
 

i have a java program that i created in Windows which connect to an msaccess database using the odbc jdbc driver but now bcos i switched to linux so i dun what and how to specify a driver so that my program can connect to the msaccess database , by the way is there something like Textpad 4.7.2 in Linux so that i can just edit compile my java programs directly from the textpad

Databases run under a database server that usually runs as a background process. There is no msaccess server for linux so you are going to have to use another database. This is easier than it sounds.

You are going to have to convert your msaccess data to another format. PostgreSQL and MySQL are both free and support JDBC. There are also utilities to convert access data into sql data.

www.postgresql.com
www.mysql.com