Why Loading of Driver is required in JDBC

[Abhishek Rath]

Hi

Can you please clarify the following points

1.Why we need to register the drivers in JDBC?
2.What is the alternative of class.forName
3.What is the use of DriVerManager class?

[Christophe Verré]

From the JDBC tutorial : Establishing a connection.

[Abhishek Rath]

Thanks .However without using datasource is there a alternative way for cass.forname()?

[Sebastian Janisch]

Whatever way you 'touch' the Driver class is good as long as it makes the classloader initializes it.