Why we use Class.forName(“oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver”) while connecting to a database?

Question

What is the actual use of Class.forName(\"oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver\") while connecting to a database? Why cant we just import the same class, instead why

Answer 1

This is used for to open a class or in other words invoke it via its name from string format.
For example:

Class.forName("com.android.example.MainClass");

And it will start the class inside the package com/android/example/MainClass.java