How to connect to a remote MySQL database with Java?

Question

I am trying to create a JSF application using the Eclipse IDE. I am using a remote mySQL server as my database. How do I connect to this remote database for creating tables

Answer 1

in my.cnf file , please change the following

## Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on ## localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure. ## bind-address = 127.0.0.1