Re: JDBC for Oracle on AIX 4.2 ?

From: Mats Olsson <matso_at_dtek.chalmers.se>
Date: 1998/01/02
Message-ID: <68hbhf$ht2$1@nyheter.chalmers.se>#1/1

In article <68ca3h$8fa$2_at_usenet.kreonet.re.kr>, Kim Do-Hyung <dynaxis_at_ivory.kaist.ac.kr> wrote:
>In comp.lang.java.advocacy Kim Do-Hyung <dynaxis_at_ivory.kaist.ac.kr> wrote:
>
>: on my RS/6000 AIX 4.2 machine except that I should call
>: DriverManager.registerDriver() explicitly.
>
>Oops... The cause of the problem was not Driver.registerDriver() but a feature
>of JDK 1.1.2 on my AIX machine. Make a Class.newInstance() call or equivalent
>and will suffice. It seems that until a new instance is created, the static
>initializer(static { }) for the driver class won't called.

Of course not. Any static's are only run when the class they belong to is loaded, and they are only loaded when they are needed - like when you first create an object using it.

/Mats Received on Fri Jan 02 1998 - 00:00:00 CST