Hello,
I have a program that queries an MS Access DB then fills in the
approperate info in the program.  I'm using the standard jdbc.odbc
bridge right now. And it is very slow.  I was wondering if there is
anyway to speed it up.

String OComp = dbu.get("Company", "Database", "Zip", "'" + zipcode + "'
AND company='" + Company + "'");
...
public String get(String col, String table, String v1, String ref) {
       String field = col;
       sql = "SELECT "+ col +" FROM "+ table +" WHERE "+v1+"="+ref;
       String comp = this.submit(sql, field);
       return comp;
   }
...
public String submit(String sql, String field) {
       String out = new String();
       try {
           Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
       } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) { // driver not found
           System.err.println("Unable to load database driver");
           System.err.println("Details : " + cnfe);
       }

       try {
           String url = "jdbc:odbc:Database";
           Connection db_connection =
DriverManager.getConnection(url);
           Statement stmt = db_connection.createStatement();
           ResultSet result = stmt.executeQuery(sql);
           if (result.next());
           out = result.getString(field);
       } catch (SQLException c) {
           System.err.println(c);
       }
       return out;

I would like to keep my code as reusable as possible.
Thank you so much.