Re: Loading JDBC Driver

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Jos Hernndez Zavala wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I am trying to load a jdbc driver for postgres, only I
> want to make it from an Applet. For an application I
> used the form:
>
> Class.forName ("postgresql.Driver");
>
> Which the correct form would be to be able to make it?

For 6.x drivers you are correct. For 7.x and later it's

Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");

PS: For applications, you have two other methods available. One supplying
the driver in the command line, ie:

java -Djdbc.driver=org.postgresql.Driver my.application

The other is using Manifest in your application's jar file, which works
well under Windows.

Peter

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