My SQL connectionproblem

[Mathews P Srampikal]

Hi,

I am connecting to My SQL database using the below code. But am getting an exception below.

Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");//works fine
System.out.println("My SQL driver loaded: ");
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:mysql://10.1.5.23:3306/mysql", "root", "root");
System.out.println("Connected to My SQL database........ ");

Exception is >>>>>>>>

com.mysql.jdbc.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago.

Please help.

Thanks,
Mats.

[Vijitha Kumara]

Check mysql server (mysqld) is running. Try connecting to mysql through command prompt.Have you try that?
[ September 17, 2008: Message edited by: Vijitha Kumara ]

[Sherif Shehab]

Hi
like Vijitha said check the connection between you and the db server

[Mathews P Srampikal]

Hi,

Sever is running and am able to see data in the DB server

Thanks,
Mats