MySQL JDBC connection stop working - mysql

Question

String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql";
String user = "root";
String pass = "root1";
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, pass);
System.out.println("Connected to database");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
System.out.println("Could not connect to database");
}
Password should be "root". The program does not display the message in the catch block and stops working. Can anyone tell me what happens?
[UPDATE]
I apologise I asked a bad question. The problem is already solved, Thanks. This helps to properly check whether the connection exists.
if (conn1 != null) {
System.out.println("Connected to the database test1");
}

Answer 1

There are three different ways to connect to SQL data base as shown in below code
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Properties;
public class MySQLConnectExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// creates three different Connection objects
Connection conn1 = null;
Connection conn2 = null;
Connection conn3 = null;
try {
// connect way #1
String url1 = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test1";
String user = "root";
String password = "secret";
conn1 = DriverManager.getConnection(url1, user, password);
if (conn1 != null) {
System.out.println("Connected to the database test1");
}
// connect way #2
String url2 = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test2?user=root&password=secret";
conn2 = DriverManager.getConnection(url2);
if (conn2 != null) {
System.out.println("Connected to the database test2");
}
// connect way #3
String url3 = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test3";
Properties info = new Properties();
info.put("user", "root");
info.put("password", "secret");
conn3 = DriverManager.getConnection(url3, info);
if (conn3 != null) {
System.out.println("Connected to the database test3");
}
} catch (SQLException ex) {
System.out.println("An error occurred. Maybe user/password is invalid");
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}