Why Loading of Driver is required in JDBC

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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

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From the JDBC tutorial : Establishing a connection.

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Abhishek Rath

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

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

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