Runtime error during createStatement() trying to connect to MySQL database

Question

I am trying to make a script to access a MySQL database over the internet. I can get this to work on my home server using PHP, but I can't figure out why my code below is not working. I get a runtime error in the conn.createStatement() line but I can't figure out what the problem is... Any help is appreciated...
import java.sql.Connection; import java.sql.DriverManager; import java.sql.ResultSet; import java.sql.SQLException; import java.sql.Statement; public class sqltest extends Activity {                 Connection conn=null; try { // from http://help.godaddy.com/topic/319/article/262 conn = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:mysql://profiles.db.1111111.hostedresource.com:3306/dbname", "dbname", "password"); } catch (SQLException e1) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e1.printStackTrace(); } try { // Create a result set containing all data from mysql_all_table Statement stmt = conn.createStatement(); ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM *");                 } }
PS: I am developing this code for android using Eclipse, but I think the issue is a pure java code related...

Answer 1

You catch the conection exception and keep on going. So 'conn' is null. That produces a null pointer exception at the createStatement() line. Which I am guessing the IDE tells you exactly that.