Hi,

> Open Office (from Sun at http://www.openoffice.org) supports both ODBC
> and JDBC connections. Does anyone have any experience using either
> type of connection and/or any advice on which would be better?

Please try our snapshot release, the only difference to main release
is that it has support for OpenOffice.org Base. Details see here:

http://jaybirdwiki.firebirdsql.org/jaybird/doku.php?id=config:oobase

If you have questions, ask them in Firebird-Java list.

Roman