try {
            // The newInstance() call is a work around for some
            // broken Java implementations

            Class.forName("com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver");
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            // handle the error
        }

		//Class.forName("com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
		Connection conn = null;

		try {
		    conn =
		       DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/pippo?" +
		                                   "user=root&password=password");

		    // Do something with the Connection


		} catch (SQLException ex) {
		    // handle any errors
		    System.out.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
		    System.out.println("SQLState: " + ex.getSQLState());
		    System.out.println("VendorError: " + ex.getErrorCode());
		}