Legacy ISAM Access Methods for Java?

Posted by Cliff on Monday April 7, 2003 @10:18AM from the keeping-old-file-formats-readable dept.

GamerGeek asks: "I work for a small company in the Midwest. We have some old products written in Databus / PL/B. In my spare time I have been investigating the idea of rewriting these programs in Java. My main problem is that the programs store data in ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) files. Rewriting everything all at once is not feasible so the data needs to stay in the ISAM files. I am looking for a 100% java solution for reading and updating ISAM files. A Google search does not turn up anything. Is there one out there? Does anyone know the file format / process for reading an ISAM file? I would be willing to write a package myself if I had that information and open source it too."

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Saddam Huseein, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-07 14:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just heard the news on MSNDB, AP, and Reuters, Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was killed this evening in his bunker, along with his son and top advisors. There were no survivors. Even if you're a pansy ass war protester (or a democrat, .... but I repeat myself), you've got to admit George W Bush won't take shit from anyone, not Afghanistan, not Iraq, not the UN, and not France.