Important: If using Java SE 6 or higher, you do not need to register the driver and can skip this step. Java SE 6 and higher automatically registers the driver with the JDBC Driver Manager.
Registering the driver tells the JDBC Driver Manager to load the driver. The driver is registered by using the Class.forName() method and specifying the driver class name as the argument. The class name of the driver is com.ddtek.jdbc.redshift.RedshiftDriver. This example shows how to register the driver:
