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protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
{
    response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
    try (PrintWriter out = response.getWriter())
    {
        Connection c = MySQLConnector.connect("DBFoobar", "username", "passwd");
        String message = null;
        if (c == null)
            message = "Connection returned null";
        else
            message = "C is returned: " + c.toString();
        out.println("<!DOCTYPE html>");
        out.println("<html>");
        out.println("<body>");
        out.println(message);
        .
        .
        .

public class MySQLConnector
{
    private static final String dbURLPrefix
            = "jdbc:mysql://dbfoobar.xxx.uswest2.rds.amazonaws.com:3306/";
    public static Connection connect(String dbName, String username, String password)
    {
        Connection connection = null;
        try
        {
           Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
           connection = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURLPrefix + dbName
                + "?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useSSL=false", username, password);
           .
           .
           .