Hello ngking,
welcome at Jabaco.
I am not so familiar with ADO, but so far I know is ADO a COM object. In the COM list I found the modules msado15.dll (ADODB), msadomd.dll (ADOMD) and msadox.dll (ADOX). My suggestion: One way to realize a solution to use ADO with Jabaco is to use the Java-COM-Bridge (JaCoB).
Here is a example for Word
® and all links you need.
With
JDBC you are right. For MS-SQL-Server you find a JDBC driver
here and
here is an older list with a lot of JDBC drivers. I do not know a JDBC driver for Access
®, I use JDBC-ODBC-Bridge, you find an example
here.
Hope it helps.
Cheers
Stefan