Question

I have created a MySQL database. I am building a GUI in java. How can I connect this Java software to the database?

Answer 1

First, you need to add the mysql jdbc driver jar to your project, then you would create a connection as follows:

String url = "jdbc:mysql://yourhost:port/dbname";
Class.forName ("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"); // to load the driver
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection (url, userName, password);

Here yourhost is the name or ip address of the server, port is the port number to which the mysql server is bound, dbname is the name of your database.