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Foil 7 Driver Manager

From Overview of JDBC: Java Database Connectivity Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Nancy McCracken,(Sangetta Aggarwal, Meryem Ispirli, Udayan Parvate, Tom Pulikal, Chao-Wei Ou)
The DriverManager class keeps track of the drivers that are available and handles establishing a connection between a driver and a particular database.
User loads the Driver explicitly Class.forName("acme.db.Driver"); This loads the driver class, which should itself call DriverManager.registerDriver with its instance and thus be available for a creating a connection.

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