Re: JAVA/JDBC newbie question

["Dave Wall" <dawall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In client/server configurations you can also use the Toolbox driver
(com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver).  The Toolbox allows you to access
AS/400 resources (including database data via JDBC or record-level database
access) from a Java program running on a client.  That client can be
running 32-bit Windows (95, 98, NT 4, 2000), AIX, Linux, Solaris, OS/2,
another AS/400, ...

David Wall
AS/400 Toolbox for Java


"Tom Tufankjian" <Tom_Tufankjian@hbltd.com>@midrange.com on 11/21/2000
08:47:01 AM

Please respond to JAVA400-L@midrange.com

Sent by:  owner-java400-l@midrange.com


To:   JAVA400-L@midrange.com
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Subject:  JAVA/JDBC newbie question






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?

Thanks for your help.

tom t


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