regarding Drivers

[Krishna Bulusu]

hi,
i have one small doubt...
we will use Class.forName("driver"); to load the driver....

my doubt is can we load two drivers??
like

Class.forName("driver1");
Class.forName("driver2");

will the aboue code compiles and runs or any exception??

thanks in advance

regards,
krishna.

[Ulf Dittmer]

You can have as many Class.forName statements in a program as you wish, just as you can use several different JDBC drivers in the same program. Mind you, Class.forName is a generic way to load classes, and not exclusively used for JDBC.

[Krishna Bulusu]

thank u Ulf...

but in such case where i have loaded two drivers in the same programme...which one will be pramoted .....??

[Martin Simons]

That depends on your connection url. jdbcracle would use the loaded
oracle driver. jdbc:mysql would use the loaded mysql driver. If you
load two drivers for the same db, then I believe it would use the first
one loaded for that connection url type.
[ May 29, 2006: Message edited by: Martin Simons ]