Re: driver initialization and connection separation

Richard Troy wrote:

> I got the
> connectivity working just fine, thank you, but when I then asked the
> application to switch between encrypted and non-encrypted connections, it
> "broke."

What were you trying to do exactly, and how did it break?

> A modest amount of testing showed that when the app. attempted to
> reload the driver, the Postgres JDBC driver wasn't initializing as
> outlined here:
>
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#forName%28java.lang.String%29

Well, classes only ever get initialized once.

-O