RE: please critique

["Hatzenbeler, Tim" <thatzenbeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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/
> 
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