Dan,

Thanks for your help.

>From the terminal I was very explicit, I did this:

>mysql --host localhost --port 3306 --user myuser --password
>password: 123

And it worked fine.  In my log4net, I believe I set jdbc logs to be ALL or
DEBUG (i'll check when I get home), but it didn't output the host and
password (just in case it is reading from the wrong file somehow??).




On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Daniel Mikusa <dmik...@vmware.com> wrote:

> On Nov 12, 2012, at 10:55 PM, S Ahmed wrote:
>
> > I can't seem to connect to my mysql database from my java code, but I can
> > do it via terminal using the user and password that is in my spring
> context
> > file.
> >
> > I also tried modifying it to localhost:3306 but that didn't change
> anything
> > (it defaults to 3306).
>
> Have you tried using 127.0.0.1 or the IP address of the machine?  Perhaps
> something is not right in your /etc/hosts file and it is unable to lookup
> localhost.
>
> >
> > Both the application and mysql are on the same server (ec2).
> >
> > What can I do to figure out the issue?  I'm lost!
> >
> > my xml file has:
> >
> >    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSource"
> > destroy-method="close">
> >        <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
> >        <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/mydb"/>
> >        <property name="username" value="myuser"/>
> >        <property name="password" value="123"/>
> >
> >        <property name="maxActive" value="100"/>
> >        <property name="maxIdle" value="30"/>
> >        <property name="maxWait" value="1000"/>
> >        <property name="defaultAutoCommit" value="true"/>
> >        <property name="removeAbandoned" value="true"/>
> >        <property name="removeAbandonedTimeout" value="60"/>
> >
> >        <property name="testOnBorrow" value="true"/>
> >        <property name="validationQuery" value="SELECT 1"/>
> >
> >    </bean>
> >
> > This is the error I am getting:
> >
> > Exception in thread "main"
> > org.springframework.jdbc.CannotGetJdbcConnectionException: Could not get
> > JDBC Connection; nested exception is
> > com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications
> > link failure
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
> > at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
> > at
> >
> java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:327)
> > at
> >
> java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:193)
> > at
> >
> java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:180)
> > at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:384)
> > at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:546)
> > at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:495)
> > at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:392)
> > at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:235)
> > at
> >
> com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:257)
> > at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:300)
> > ... 29 more
>
> Seems like the root cause is that a connection cannot be made to the
> server.  Double check your credentials.  Also, how are you testing from the
> terminal?  Can you run "telnet localhost 3306"?
>
> Dan
>
>
>
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