Registering driver with DriverManager

[MaheshS Kumbhar]

Driver classes register themselves with DriverManager using static section at the time of loading driver class. My question is who loads the driver class so as to register with DriverManager?

[Sagar Rohankar]

MaheshS Kumbhar wrote:My question is who loads the driver class so as to register with DriverManager?

I think, we load the Driver class. In any "Hello World" JDBC program, you can find the first line like

Class.forName("com.vendorName.Driver");

[Jan Cumps]

True for stand alone Java programs. If you are using containers to run your application (say: TomCat, Glassfish, what thave you), they load the drivers for all registered JDBC Connections.