what exactly does this do Class.forName(“com.mysql.jdbc.Driver”).newInstance();

Question

While connecting to MySQL database I do following steps

Connection con = null;
Resultset rs = null;
Statement st = null;
Class.forName(\"com.mysql.jdbc.Drive         


        

Answer 1

It initialize the class "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" if found in the classpath, this imply that the driver is registered in the JDBC driver manager since the registration process is inside the static initializer of the driver class ...

There is another approach you can use to register a driver : is to use the static DriverManager.registerDriver() method.