Loading the jConnect driver

Before you can use jConnect in your application, load the driver with the following statement:

DriverManager.registerDriver( (Driver)
    Class.forName(
    "com.sybase.jdbc3.jdbc.SybDriver").newInstance()
    );

Using the newInstance method works around issues in some browsers.

As the classes are loaded using Class.forName, the package containing the jConnect driver does not have to be imported using import statements.
To use jConnect 6.0.5, jconn3.jar must be in your class file path when you run the application. jconn3.jar is located in the classes subdirectory of your jConnect 6.0.5 installation (typically, jConnect-6_0\classes).

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