Object-Oriented Thought Process, The, Second Edition

Loading the Driver

Running a database application is not quite as straightforward as running the serialization example in the earlier sections of this chapter. The reason for this is that a client/server connection must be created. Connecting to a local file, as was done in the serialization example, is a fairly basic task. However, remember that when using a separate database application such as Microsoft Access, a connection must be made to the database itself.

This connection actually requires that the database driver be loaded first. To load the driver, we need to use the Driver Manager. In Java, the DriverManager class loads the driver into the Java app, and then JDBC is used to make the connection between the app and the database.

To load ...