How to connect to online mysql database from Java desktop app -

i pave paid hosting, , added database it. trying connect online database java desktop application but, got exception: communications link failure.

here code:

public kviz_dao(){     try{         class.forname("com.mysql.jdbc.driver");         konekcija = drivermanager.getconnection("jdbc:mysql://penal.ba:2082/mydatabasename?"+                 "user=mydbuser&password=mydbpassword");     }     catch(exception ex){         ex.printstacktrace();     } } 

can tell me i'm doing wrong.

download connector j . add classpath , in code:

// load mysql driver, each db has own driver class.forname("com.mysql.jdbc.driver"); // setup connection db connect = drivermanager   .getconnection("jdbc:mysql://remoteuri/database-name?"       + "user=user&password=userpw");