The DriverManager class acts as an interface between user and drivers. It keeps track of the drivers that are available and handles establishing a connection between a database and the appropriate driver. The DriverManager class maintains a list of Driver classes that have registered themselves by calling the method DriverManager.registerDriver().
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| 1) public static void registerDriver(Driver driver): | is used to register the given driver with DriverManager. |
| 2) public static void deregisterDriver(Driver driver): | is used to deregister the given driver (drop the driver from the list) with DriverManager. |
| 3) public static Connection getConnection(String url): | is used to establish the connection with the specified url. |
| 4) public static Connection getConnection(String url,String userName,String password): | is used to establish the connection with the specified url, username and password. |
