What does Class.forName return?

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What does Class.forName return?..

Answer / ranganathkini

The Class.forName( String name ) returns a java.lang.Class
object associated with the class or interface with the
specified fully qualified name.

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What does Class.forName return?..

Answer / karthik

Class.forName attempts to load the class whose name is
given in its only argument, and returns the Class instance
representing that class. In the
event that the Class could not be found, resolved, verified,
or loaded, Class.forName
throws one of several different Exceptions

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What does Class.forName return?..

Answer / ashish

yes sure it returns java.lang.class object.

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What does Class.forName return?..

Answer / rajiv

hi......
Class.forName() is basically used to load the diver. forName() is static method thats why its directly call with class name( i:e Class)
which return java.lang.class object. n with the help of that object we establish the connection with database.

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What does Class.forName return?..

Answer / prashant

Class.forNmae first loads the class in current classLoader so as to use that in future. Internally DriverManager gets the reference of the driver by using dynamic laoding (nothing is magical) this is is the reason when you say manager.GetConnection() it returns connection using the loaded driver

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What does Class.forName return?..

Answer / sushant

the database hs been created using SQL server which is ODBC
complaint. Hence the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver will be used
to communication width the database the folloeing
statement will be used to load this driver

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What does Class.forName return?..

Answer / surya, samcomm technologies pv

yes. It does return Class type.

code:-

try {
Class clazz=Class.forName("");
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

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What does Class.forName return?..

Answer / sushant

Exception and SQLException

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