Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 11:10:15 -0700
Message-Id: <199708221810.LAA13214@puffin.eng.sun.com>
From: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>
To: Seth.White@Eng
Subject: Re: JDK1.1.3 applet security exception
Yow!
Thanks Seth.
Here's what the JDBC FAQ says. (I was curious too!)
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Why doesn't calling class.forName() load my JDBC driver?
There is a bug in the JDK 1.1 that can cause class.forName() to fail. This
error usually only happens occasionally, and is hard to reproduce. A work
around is to call class.forName() in a loop until it succeeds.
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