>>>A new customer of ours wants to convert their data from Vertrax's FuelPak software to ours. The other program appears to have been written in Java, and I have no experience in reading, much less converting, Java data files in VFP. Can anyone offer help or suggestions with this?
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>>>Chris.
>> What are they using to store data? What Database, sql server, oracle, etc..?
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>Up until a few minutes ago, I didn't even know *that*. It has tentatively been identified as a Pervasive Btrieve set of files, and I'm in the as-yet-unsuccessful process of trying to find an ODBC driver to read the data.
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>Chris.
From what little I know about Java, it seems that unlike Visual FoxPro, there is no native "Java storage"; data would usually be stored in an external database, such as Oracle, MySql, etc. If this is the case, then just like Java can access the database server, Visual FoxPro should be able access the same database server, for example via ODBC. There would be no need for a "data conversion" as such.
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