About the return of Class.forName(driverName);

[bsadhukhan]

When we connect database, we first load driver with code like

Class.forName(driverName);

.
Now forName() has a return of type Class or Object. But we dont keep that return type, we sure that it is in heap location.
Anyone can tell me about that return element(Class/Object)?
Or is there any use of that return element?

Please help me.

[Sean Pedersen]

This is a guess. I can't think of anything I've used which behaves this way.

try {
    Object o = Class.forName(driverName);
} catch (Exception e) {
    Class.forName(driverName).doMethods();
}