Re: please critique

    Hi Tim,

    Yeah, what Richard said.  In fact, if you look further down in the
tutorial (hint), you'll see "Generalizing Connection Information", which
does exactly that.  That's how the programs can run against the three
databases, or any other, unchanged - just point ot the new properties.

> Why would I pick one over the other?

    Class.forName( sDriver ) loads a class given just a String; that means
you can pass in the driver class.  No hard coding, that's why I would pick
it.    A standard JDBC driver executes a static section of code on class
loading that registers itself with the DriverManager.

    HTH,

                                                         Joe Sam

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hatzenbeler, Tim" <thatzenbeler@clinitech.net>
To: "'Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400'"
<java400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:23 PM
Subject: RE: please critique


> Thank you for the link...  And after a few paragraphs, I saw something,
that
> is unclear to me..
>
> Is it better to do 1
> 1)String sDriver =
>       "COM.cloudscape.core.RmiJdbcDriver";
>     String sURL =
>       "jdbc:cloudscape:rmi:jGuru;create=true";
>     String sUsername = "sa";
>     String sPassword = "admin";
>
>     try   // Attempt to load the JDBC driver
>     {     // with newInstance
>         Class.forName( sDriver ).newInstance();
>     }
>
> or a
> 2) DriverManager.registerDriver(new
> com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver());
> con = DriverManager.getConnection
> ("jdbc:as400://"+system,"username","password");
>
> Whats better?  Class.forName  or  registerDriver?  Or are they the same?
Why
> would I pick one over the other?
>
> Thanks again,
> tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Sam Shirah [SMTP:jshirah@attglobal.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:17 AM
> > To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
> > Subject: Re: please critique
> >
> >
> >     Hi Tim,
> >
> >     The program looks basically OK from a JDBC point of view, aside
> > from the clutter.  Whether it's really OK depends on the needs of your
> > app.  Rather than running through it point by point, which most of
> >
> >
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/Database/JDBC20Intr
> > o/
> >