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Originally posted by: stonysmithSharepoint is just a MS-SQL-Server database.
It should be possible to read from it with JDBC, but you'd have to learn the structure of the tables, etc.
Reading from it with JDBC depends partly upon which version of SqlServer is being used (2005,2008, etc) and then getting the right Java driver to fit that version of SqlServer