Re: native driver?

["Bruce Jin" <JIN007M@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Or should I be doing "soft"
> declarations (using class.forName) to get round the problem?

Class.forName("com.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver") will do the trick in VAJ.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Price, Chris" <chris_price@nsb.co.uk>
To: <java400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:35 AM
Subject: native driver?


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> I'm trying to write some portable code. When being run on a separate box I
> use the Toolbox JDBC driver to get at the data base, with some code like:
>
> DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver());
>
> No problem. To run the same code on the AS/400, I should use the native
> driver, as follows:
> DriverManager.registerDriver(new com.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver());
>
> However VAJ cannot find a definition of the native driver. I've looked
> around, and there isn't one in the repository. How do I get round this? Do
I
> import the class directly from the AS/400? Or should I be doing "soft"
> declarations (using class.forName) to get round the problem?
>
> Chris.
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