SQLapp
Connecting to MySQL from Eclipse
Create a Java Application and add the following code as a class. This will illustrate how to connect to Java from Eclipse. Make sure it works as shown below. Then modify the SQL Statement to retrieve the people and pets.
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement;
public class Application { public static void main(String[] args) { Connection con = null; Statement stmt = null; ResultSet rs = null; String sql = "select * from customers"; try{ Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"); con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/Customers?" + "user=root&password=password"); stmt = con.createStatement(); rs = stmt.executeQuery(sql); while(rs.next()){ System.out.print(rs.getString("FirstName") + "\t"); System.out.print(rs.getString("LastName")); System.out.println(); } }catch (SQLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { try { rs.close(); stmt.close(); con.close(); }catch(SQLException e){ e.printStackTrace(); } } } }