The procedure for connecting from the DriverManager class to HiRDB and generating an instance of the Connection class is as follows:

1. Register the Driver class into the Java Virtual Machine.
2. Set the connection information in the arguments, and use the getConnection method of the DriverManager class to connect to HiRDB.

Organization of this section

17.2.1 Registering the Driver class

17.2.2 Connecting to HiRDB with the getConnection method