import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import com.mysql.jdbc.Connection;
import com.mysql.jdbc.Statement;

public class ConnexionBDD {

static String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:8888/Peoples?autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false";
static String login = "root";
static String password = "";

static Connection connection = null;
static Statement statement = null;
static ResultSet result = null;
static String request = "";

public static void main (String[] args) {

    System.out.println("will load driver");
    loadingDrive();
    System.out.println("will connect");
    connection();

}

public static void loadingDrive() {
    try {
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
    } catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {
        e.getMessage();
    }
}

public static void connection() {
    try
    {
       connection =  (Connection) DriverManager.getConnection(url, login, password);
       System.out.println("Connected");
       statement = (Statement) connection.createStatement();

       result = statement.executeQuery(request);

    }
    catch ( SQLException e )
    {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    } finally {
        if ( result != null ) {
            try {
                result.close();
            } catch ( SQLException ignore ) {
            }
        }
        if ( statement != null ) {
            try {
                statement.close();
            } catch ( SQLException ignore ) {
            }
        }
        if ( connection != null ) {
            try {
                connection.close();
            } catch ( SQLException ignore ) {
            }
        }
    }
}
}

will load driver
will connect
Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up.

result = statement.executeQuery(request);

System.out.println(result.next());

<dependency>
   <groupId>mysql</groupId>
   <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
   <version>5.1.6</version>
</dependency>

will connect
Connected
true

Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up.

static String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Peoples?autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false";