i am also getting same error..please look into log The last packet sent successfully to the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The driver has not received any packets from the server. at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor41.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) at com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:61) at com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:105) at com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createException(ExceptionFactory.java:151) at com.mysql.cj.exceptions.ExceptionFactory.createCommunicationsException(ExceptionFactory.java:167) at com.mysql.cj.protocol.a.NativeSocketConnection.connect(NativeSocketConnection.java:91) at com.mysql.cj.NativeSession.connect(NativeSession.java:152) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:955) at com.mysql.cj.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:825) ... 12 more Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206) at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589) at com.mysql.cj.protocol.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:155) at com.mysql.cj.protocol.a.NativeSocketConnection.connect(NativeSocketConnection.java:65) ... 15 more @ ... View more