Mohan's JDBCBook: How do I create a database connection?

The database connection is created in 3 steps:

1. Find a proper database URL

2. Load the database driver

3. Ask the Java DriverManager class to open a connection to your database

In java code, the steps are realized in code as follows:

1. Create a properly formatted JDBR URL for your database. A JDBC URL has the form

jdbc:someSubProtocol://myDatabaseServer/theDatabaseName

try {

Class.forName("my.database.driver");

} catch(Exception ex)

{

System.err.println("Could not load database driver: " + ex);

}

3. Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("a.JDBC.URL", "databaseLogin",

"databasePassword");