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Question

I\'m trying to unit test (JUnit) a DAO i\'ve created. I\'m using Spring as my framework, my DAO (JdbcPackageDAO) extends SimpleJdbcDaoSupport. The testing class (JdbcPacka

Answer 1

In order to have HSQLDB register itself, you need to access its jdbcDriver class. You can do this the same way as in this example.

Class.forName("org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver");

It triggers static initialization of jdbcDriver class, which is:

static {
    try {
        DriverManager.registerDriver(new jdbcDriver());
    } catch (Exception e) {}
}