Answer Posted / m.gangadhar

Example
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver")

first it loads th class name at run time
second it executes the static initializer containg the code
of driver class i.e
static
{
try{
DriverManager.registerDriver(new Driver());
}
catch(Exception e){}
}

then it creates the object for the driver class and
registers that object in to the DriverManager

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