Dear all,
I am using
JDBC Type 3 driver for Oracle database. I am using classes12.jar. In this we have a class called oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver. When we are creating a connection with a database first statement we write is
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
Can anybody tell me exactly how this functions? I mean when we say Class.forName("ABC"), this causes class named ABC to be initilized or it creates a copy of the class ABC.
What happens to copy of class ABC if it is already there?
~ Amit
[ July 27, 2005: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]