jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ= stopped working

[Alejandro Barrero]

I have been using this code for years

	public Connection getConnection() throws SQLException {
		String driver = "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver";
		String fullConnectionString = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ="
				+ filePath;
		Connection conn = null;
		try {
			Class.forName(driver);
			conn = DriverManager.getConnection(fullConnectionString, userName,
					password);
		} catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
			throw new SQLException("ClassNotFoundException");
		} catch (SQLException e) {
			throw new SQLException("SQLException");
		}
		return conn;
	}

The code stopped working when I started to use 64 bit Java. I found in the Internet that there are 32 and 64 bit drivers, but Java always uses the 32 bit driver. Microsoft keeps 32 bit drivers in Windows 32 and 64 bit drivers in SysWOW64 but I don't know how to access it or how would the program know that it is running 64 bits.