Hi, I've been recently trying to learn a bit of java - specifically web app development using struts 2 and hibernate. I'm up to version 3 of the tutorial so far.

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This snippet of code shows how to use the generic System.Data.Common types to connect to any database, using a string to define which database provider you want to use. The magic happens with the 'Activator.CreateInstance' below, where C# has the ability to create a class from a string.

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