On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Conor MacNeill wrote:

> The driver you are actually loading is a class which implements the Driver
> interface, so there should be no problem in loading it and creating an
> instance. This is true of the Oracle driver we use here. Creating an
> instance should run the static initializer and cause the class to register
> itself with the DriverManager (loaded in the system class loader).
> 
> Can you try that?

Another approach that is useful is to get reference to class
and try to look up a non-existent method. This forces
resolution (usually).

Cheers,

Pete

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