need help to connect to MYSQL DB from Eclipse web application

salamu alikom all,

actually i'm new in Eclipse & i need to use it to connect to MYSQL DB,

&
i write the following code for connection, but when i run it no thing
happen, no output appear, & when i debug it i found that the
debuger with stop in the line

conn=DriverManager.getConnection(connectionURL,"root","");

----------------------------------------my code for connection

String driver ="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"; //"org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver";
    	   String dbName="travel";
    	   String connectionURL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/" + dbName;
    	   //String createString="CREATE TABLE Users(Id INT PRIMARY KEY,"+
    	     //"Username VARCHAR(30),Password VARCHAR(30));";
    	 try{ 
    		 //load the driver
	         Class.forName(driver).newInstance();
	         conn=DriverManager.getConnection(connectionURL,"root","");
	         if(!conn.isClosed())
	             System.out.println("Successfully connected to " +
	               "MySQL server using TCP/IP...");
	         //stmt=conn.createStatement();
	         //System.out.println (" . . . . creating table WISH_LIST");
	         //stmt.execute(createString);
       }
       catch(Exception e)
       {
    	   e.printStackTrace();
         System.out.println("Error "+e.getMessage());
       }