MSachin

• Aug 17th, 2005

 

registerDriver() registers the JDBC driver with the DriverManager class. 
 
Class.forName() first loads the respective driver into the memory, registers the driver with the Driver Manager class and then creates an instance of the driver to carry out the necessary JDBC actions.

ruchi

• Jan 8th, 2006

 

class.forName() is a method ,this method takes a string representing a fully qualified class name(one that includes the package name) and loads the corresponding class.

lokanath reddy

• Oct 25th, 2012

 

class.forName("full qualm name"); is used to load the driver explicitly and DriverManger.registerDriver(new classname()); will implicitly loads the driver automatically