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Why Class.forName?
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Pavan Sambare
Greenhorn
Joined: Aug 21, 2006
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When you load a JDBC driver you use Class.forName to load it. Any reasons why?
What I thought is that you can pass an externalized string to Class.forName and thus use any Driver at runtime.
Does it also have to do something with ClassLoader hierarchy?
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Paul Sturrock
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Joined: Apr 14, 2004
Posts: 10336
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Have a search through this forum. THis question gets asked a lot, so there will be loads of answers. Als ohave a read through our JDBCFaqs, these cover a lot of the basics of JDBC.
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