Release notes.
The data type conversion has been improved. The main documentation of the add-in explains how this is being done starting with this version.
This version has been tested under the following platforms:

• OpenOffice 2.3 (Spanish), 2.4.x (US English), and 3.0.x (US English)
• Linux
• Windows 2000, and XP SP2 & SP3

with the following drivers:

• JDBC MySQL JDBC driver (com.mysql.jdbc.Driver class) ver. 5.0.8
• Oracle JDBC thin driver (ojdbc14.jar) with Oracle Database 10g Release 10.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
• HXTT DBF JDBC Driver ver. 4.2

Known bugs

• When a date field contains NULL, Calc displays #VALUE! in all cells (07-feb-2009 by jc). A possible workaround is to use MySQL IFNULL() function to avoid null values on date fields.