DriverManager

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Hi Friends What is DriverManager?

Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

DriverManager class It's used for establishing JDBC connections and for managing JDBC drivers. JDBC 2.0 API has a new interface DataSource and the preferred means of connecting to a data source has now become by using a DataSource object. DriverManager tries to load the driver classes mentioned in the ' jdbc.drivers ' system property while the initialization. You can explicitly load JDBC drivers at any time by using the ' Class.forName(driver class); ' syntax. getConnection method of the DriverManager class tries to locate a suitable driver from amongst those loaded either during the initialization or by using Class.forName() explicitly. On successful invocation this method returns a Connection object. You need to specify the database url having the subprotocol & subname user id password etc. If any error occours during the database access then a SQLException is thrown. http://geekexplains.blogspot.in/2008/05/role-of-drivermanager-class-and-driver.html http://www.java-samples.com/showtutorial.php?tutorialid=632 http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/DriverManager.html

Vulpes · Answer

It's a class which enables you to manage the JDBC drivers used by your application.