What do people use class loading for?

Question

So, every Java text book talks about how flexible Java is since it can load classes at run time. Just cobble together a string and give it to Class.forName(), and

Answer 1

Well, I've used it for dynamically loading JDBC drivers into a J2EE application. Wheteher this could have been done a better way, I have no idea.

It was just easier at the time to do the forName() call.