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| author | Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> | 2015-02-13 23:51:29 -0500 |
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| committer | Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> | 2015-02-13 23:51:29 -0500 |
| commit | d6fe15df6d62dc9ae1c128e1af51bec829ffee4c (patch) | |
| tree | 272f967791f79a065076af0e4579586461813df7 | |
| parent | d9336f91aad7b09c7315fe5794c2514e91d11e54 (diff) | |
Some minor gruntles about `Class.forName`.
| -rw-r--r-- | wiki/java/stop-using-class-dot-forname.md | 7 |
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diff --git a/wiki/java/stop-using-class-dot-forname.md b/wiki/java/stop-using-class-dot-forname.md index a44f693..b01e972 100644 --- a/wiki/java/stop-using-class-dot-forname.md +++ b/wiki/java/stop-using-class-dot-forname.md @@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ developers. _You don't need to write any code to load a JDBC 4 driver._ +## What's The Harm? + +It's harmless in the immediate sense: forcing a driver to load immediately +before JDBC would load it itself has no additional side effects. However, it's +a pretty clear indicator that you've copied someone else's code without +thoroughly understanding what it does, which is a bad habit. + ## But What About My Database? You don't need to worry about it. All of the following drivers support JDBC |