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Communication Error ?

Communication Error ?

kueh	17 Jun, 2009 - 06:49 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 20 May, 2009 Posts: 13	hi all, i am using eclispe SDK 3.3.2 and mySql for my program, both programs are using the same pc. here is how i program the database connection CODE Connection conn = null; Statement stmt = null; ResultSet rs = null; Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance(); conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql:///","user", "password"); however i got this error in my console, Exception: Communications link failure Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago. Can you guys please tell me what is causing this error ? thanks in advance.
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Martyr2	RE: Communication Error ? 17 Jun, 2009 - 08:26 PM Post #2
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 7,246 Thanked: 820 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	In your URL try using localhost if you are running the server on the machine that you are developing on. I think what is happening is that you have an invalid URL. Also make sure that mysql is running and that you can connect to it with any other tools/technologies just to make sure that it is all working fine. You can also try connecting without using eclipse and just do a standard java file test.
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kueh	RE: Communication Error ? 19 Jun, 2009 - 10:26 AM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 20 May, 2009 Posts: 13	Hi Martyr2, i tried connecting with a the similar code above on JCreator ide and i got an output of Exception: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver having check through several sites , it seems that my delcaration for database connection is correct. thanks for the advice tho.
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