Re: JAVA/JDBC newbie question

["Larry Meadors" <lmeadors@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From the java docs, this "attempts to locate, load, and link the class or 
interface." 

If I read this correctly, this is the same as:
   import COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver;

The key difference as I see it is that you are importing a class dynamically at 
runtime instead of statically at compile time. This make it possible to load 
different drivers or classes "on-the-fly":

   Class.forName(myJDBCDriverNameHere);

The benefit is that you could theoretically write code to use the db2 or oracle 
or mysql driver without hard-coding the specific driver.

Larry

>>> Tom_Tufankjian@hbltd.com 11/21/00 07:47AM >>>
I have seen the following code and would like to know what it does:

Class.forName("COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver");

The documentation says it "enables Java to find the driver classes for
handling JDBC objects."

Specifically, what does the "Class.forName"  do?


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