JDBC – Load Driver

Class.forName():

• The most common approach to register a driver is to use Java’s Class.forName() method.
• Class.forName() method is to dynamically load the driver’s class file into memory, which automatically registers it.

package online; public class LoadDriver {             public static void main(String args[])             {                         String driver = “oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver”;                         try                         {                                     Class.forName(driver);                                     System.out.println(“Driver loaded”);                         }                         catch(ClassNotFoundException e1)                         {                                     System.out.println(“Exception : Driver is not present”);                         }             } }