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 will create a new instance of the com.mysql.jdbc.Driver class and hence call the static initialization which will register the driver with the DriverManager so you can create mysql connections based on the URL you use in the second line.

The class however should be in the mysql.jar.