RE: JAVA/JDBC newbie question

According to Sun's documentation for the Class class, the forName method:

"Returns the Class object associated with the class or interface with the
given string name."

To do this it must first load the class with the given name, and presumably
there's some static initialization going on in that class that sets up the
drivers for use.

PC2

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Tufankjian [mailto:Tom_Tufankjian@hbltd.com]
Sent: November 21, 2000 06:47
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
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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