public class Connect {
    static String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/bazy?autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false&useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8";

    static String username = "root";
    static String password = "root";

    protected static Connection connection = null;

    public static void connectToDatabase() {
        try {
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Got an exception (Connect)! ");
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}