class.forname

hi,
I wrote the connection class.in that i wrote class.forname()........

etc.

now my question is every time i am calling the above connection class ,
class.forname ()method will execute or only once it will execute.

and what the class.forname() returns.

cheers,
babu.

We get this question a lot, a pervious conversation is here.

Can find out what it returns by looking at the API

hi,
class.forname returns class object.ok.

i want clarification for class.forname executes as many times as i requested the class or not?

cheers,
babu.

If the class has not been loaded, the first time Class.forName() is called it will cause the class to load. Loading the class also causes it to be registered wit the DriverManager.

If the Class is already loaded, it get returned from the ClassLoader cache and does not get loaded again. Therefore you can have as many calls to Class.forName() as you like and the overhead will be minimal.