What is the use of Class.forName
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Answer / rajshekhar
class.forName() is used to load the jdbc driver.
class is a class and for name is a static method its syntax
is
Class.forName("sun.jdbc:odbc:JdbcOdbcDriver");
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Answer / amol sawant
Class.forName(driver);
in this "Class" is the name of the Object of "Class" class
which is in sql package
and forName();
is method of that class "Class"
it will load the driver for connection purpose
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Answer / ramaiah raj
Class.forName(String ClassName); Here Class is Predefined
class.forName(String className) is method used to create the
object which declared as abstract. In JDBC the Driver class
is an abstract class. So in order to create a instance
forName method is used.
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Answer / bhagya raju vallabhapuram
loads the class into jvm's memory with out creating the object
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Answer / poonam verma
It loads class once and execute static block.
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Answer / ambika
it is used to load the driver in database
its a first step of connection of database
structure:
class.forName("sun.jdbc:odbc:jdbcodbcDriver")
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Answer / devarathnam c,kotagudibanda(po
Hi...
Class.forName();method facilitates you to loading the
driver inorder to providing the connection between the
forntend and backend for database transactions.
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Answer / nk
The class.forname provides a mechanism to define driver at
run time.
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Answer / gopalramana
class.forName("abc.class")
loads ths class and create instance in JVM.
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