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Registering driver with DriverManager

 
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Driver classes register themselves with DriverManager using static section at the time of loading driver class. My question is who loads the driver class so as to register with DriverManager?
 
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MaheshS Kumbhar wrote:My question is who loads the driver class so as to register with DriverManager?


I think, we load the Driver class. In any "Hello World" JDBC program, you can find the first line like
 
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True for stand alone Java programs. If you are using containers to run your application (say: TomCat, Glassfish, what thave you), they load the drivers for all registered JDBC Connections.


 
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