What does Class.forName return?
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The Class.forName( String name ) returns a java.lang.Class
object associated with the class or interface with the
specified fully qualified name.
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Answer / karthik
Class.forName attempts to load the class whose name is
given in its only argument, and returns the Class instance
representing that class. In the
event that the Class could not be found, resolved, verified,
or loaded, Class.forName
throws one of several different Exceptions
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Answer / rajiv
hi......
Class.forName() is basically used to load the diver. forName() is static method thats why its directly call with class name( i:e Class)
which return java.lang.class object. n with the help of that object we establish the connection with database.
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Answer / prashant
Class.forNmae first loads the class in current classLoader so as to use that in future. Internally DriverManager gets the reference of the driver by using dynamic laoding (nothing is magical) this is is the reason when you say manager.GetConnection() it returns connection using the loaded driver
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Answer / sushant
the database hs been created using SQL server which is ODBC
complaint. Hence the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver will be used
to communication width the database the folloeing
statement will be used to load this driver
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Answer / surya, samcomm technologies pv
yes. It does return Class type.
code:-
try {
Class clazz=Class.forName("");
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
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