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VoltDB Timeout for createConnection

Below is a simple code snippet that shows how to connect to a VoltDB server.
ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig();
Client client = ClientFactory.createClient(clientConfig);
String server = "192.168.43.32";
client.createConnection(server);
Based on my experiments, if the server is down or just not connectable from network layer, it will take about 75 seconds to get the response.
SEVERE: Failed to connect to 192.168.43.32, in 75,359 ms
java.net.ConnectException: Operation timed out
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:458)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:450)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:648)
at java.nio.channels.SocketChannel.open(SocketChannel.java:189)
at org.voltdb.client.ConnectionUtil.getAuthenticatedConnection(ConnectionUtil.java:154)
at org.voltdb.client.ConnectionUtil.getAuthenticatedConnection(ConnectionUtil.java:142)
at org.voltdb.client.ConnectionUtil.getAuthenticatedConnection(ConnectionUtil.java:134)
at org.voltdb.client.Distributer.createConnectionWithHashedCredentials(Distributer.java:878)
at org.voltdb.client.ClientImpl.createConnectionWithHashedCredentials(ClientImpl.java:189)
at org.voltdb.client.ClientImpl.createConnection(ClientImpl.java:682)
at src.java.tutorial.voltdb.integration.ConnectionTest.main(ConnectionTest.java:27)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:140)
Is there any ways to set the time out time, so the application needs not to wait for such a long time. A successful connection normally takes just tens of milliseconds, so I think if the connection cannot be established within 1000 milliseconds, something is definitely wrong already.
I have tried the setting of below
clientConfig.setConnectionResponseTimeout(1000);
In this case, it has no effects at all. So I guess it is not for this purpose.

Normally when the database is down and your client tries to connect it will get an immediate Connection refused exception, for example:
Exception in thread "main" java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:364)
at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:356)
at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:623)
at java.nio.channels.SocketChannel.open(SocketChannel.java:184)
at org.voltdb.client.ConnectionUtil.getAuthenticatedConnection(ConnectionUtil.java:165)
at org.voltdb.client.ConnectionUtil.getAuthenticatedConnection(ConnectionUtil.java:153)
at org.voltdb.client.ConnectionUtil.getAuthenticatedConnection(ConnectionUtil.java:145)
at org.voltdb.client.Distributer.createConnectionWithHashedCredentials(Distributer.java:890)
at org.voltdb.client.ClientImpl.createConnectionWithHashedCredentials(ClientImpl.java:191)
at org.voltdb.client.ClientImpl.createConnection(ClientImpl.java:684)
at benchmark.Benchmark.<init>(Benchmark.java:17)
at benchmark.Benchmark.main(Benchmark.java:78)
In general, a "java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out" can occur if there is a firewall that prevents the client from receiving any sort of response, or there could be other causes. The first thing to check might be if you have any firewall or network settings that would prevent access to port 21212 (the default VoltDB database connection port).
The ClientConfig setConnectionResponseTimeout() setting is used to cause a live connection to be closed if it hasn't received a response from a procedure call or a ping for the given number of milliseconds, but it is not used for creating a new connection.

How to handle database connection fail with Hibernate, C3P0 on Java EE?

I am working on Java EE JSF application using Hibernate with C3P0 connection pool. I have tried to search anything possible and impossible and tried many things, but couldnt figure this out.
The problem is handling database connection fail, for example when database is shut down. I couldn't find a way how to catch ecfeption which I could use to show error status on user interface. The only thing I could do is see some exceptions in console:
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Could not create connection to database server. Attempted reconnect 3 times. Giving up.
at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor408.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:386)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1015)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:989)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:975)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:920)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectWithRetries(ConnectionImpl.java:2404)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2325)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:834)
at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:46)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor407.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:416)
at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:347)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnection(DriverManagerDataSource.java:146)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.getPooledConnection(WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.java:195)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.getPooledConnection(WrapperConnectionPoolDataSource.java:184)
at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.C3P0PooledConnectionPool$1PooledConnectionResourcePoolManager.acquireResource(C3P0PooledConnectionPool.java:200)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.doAcquire(BasicResourcePool.java:1086)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.doAcquireAndDecrementPendingAcquiresWithinLockOnSuccess(BasicResourcePool.java:1073)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool.access$800(BasicResourcePool.java:44)
at com.mchange.v2.resourcepool.BasicResourcePool$ScatteredAcquireTask.run(BasicResourcePool.java:1810)
at com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner$PoolThread.run(ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner.java:648)
Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure
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.GeneratedConstructorAccessor404.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1129)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:358)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.coreConnect(ConnectionImpl.java:2498)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectWithRetries(ConnectionImpl.java:2343)
... 18 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.connect0(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(DualStackPlainSocketImpl.java:79)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:339)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:200)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:182)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:172)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:579)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:528)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:425)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:241)
at com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:256)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.<init>(MysqlIO.java:308)
... 20 more
]]
But I can't catch this, it's just on console and it's not even printed in web browser response (client thread does not receive any exception, it's just hanging while trying to load the page for infinity).
Here is my C3P0 configuration:
c3p0.testConnectionOnCheckout=true
c3p0.idleConnectionTestPeriod=60
c3p0.acquireIncrement=1
c3p0.preferredTestQuery=SELECT 1
c3p0.acquireRetryAttempts=1
My question is: How to handle case of database connection fail in the user-friendly way?

You could use the Omnifaces FullAjaxExceptionHandler to display whatever you want for the exception. See the following link to documentation:
http://showcase.omnifaces.org/exceptionhandlers/FullAjaxExceptionHandler

OK, after of few days of work I have constructed a solution.
The problem was that just typical Hibernate session did not throw any exception while using it without database connected. But this piece of code does throw an exception when database not connected (so it can be used as a test):
Properties p = hibernateConnection.getCfg().getProperties();
String url = p.getProperty("hibernate.connection.url");
String user = p.getProperty("hibernate.connection.username");
String password = p.getProperty("hibernate.connection.password");
DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password).close();
So, simple try-catch can be used. If an exception is caught, connection is dead.
I used this for regular checking of database connection. On application deploy, a TimerTask is scheduled to run every minute. When it catches an exception, it sets a static variable dbAvailable to false (otherwise to true). This variable is being checked on every HTTP client request and if it's true, error 503 is sent back in response.
For scheduling the timer I used ServletContextListener. C3P0 configuration mentioned in the question.

Connecting to MySQL database java

I'm using some code for multi threaded MySQL system. It's working fine and will put entry's into my database in under half a second. My problem is, the rate at which my program will successfully connect and write to the database, is not great. Some of the time it will work fine and other times I'll receive this error, or similar:
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure
The last packet successfully received from the server was 27,697 milliseconds ago. The last packet sent successfully to the server was 1 milliseconds ago.
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1121)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3670)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3559)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:4110)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2570)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2731)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2815)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:2155)
at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.execute(PreparedStatement.java:1379)
at MySQL.putEntry(MySQL.java:46)
at MySQL.main(MySQL.java:105)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: Can not read response from server. Expected to read 4 bytes, read 0 bytes before connection was unexpectedly lost.
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:3119)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3570)
... 9 more
I'm really not sure why this happens? Executing too many statements from one address??
Anywho, here's my code:
private final ThreadedSQL sql;
private final DatabaseConnection connection;
private PreparedStatement statement;
public Hiscores() {
try {
loadConfig();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
sql = new ThreadedSQL(config);
connection = sql.getConnectionPool().nextFree();
}
public void putEntry(final Player player) {
try {
statement = connection.getConnection().prepareStatement(QUERY(player));
statement.execute();
statement.closeOnCompletion();
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
The code I've not included is irrelevant, uses java.sql.Connection. Does anyone have any idea why this is occuring? Thanks.

You should close your statement and connection, once you are done, otherwise resource pool may be exhausted or your connection may time out. I recommend to obtain new connection from some JDBC pool. I used to use proxool few years ago in servlets environment. If you are in J2EE, then application server shall do it for you, but you have to use DataSource.

CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

I used java to query some records from Mysql. But in some querys of one duration, i meet a problem which make query failed, but in others , it query successful. The error message is next:
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure
The last packet successfully received from the server was 90 milliseconds ago. The last packet sent successfully to the server was 1,674 milliseconds ago.
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1116)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3090)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:2979)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3520)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:935)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.nextRow(MysqlIO.java:1433)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readSingleRowSet(MysqlIO.java:2924)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.getResultSet(MysqlIO.java:477)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readResultsForQueryOrUpdate(MysqlIO.java:2619)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readAllResults(MysqlIO.java:1788)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2209)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2619)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2569)
at com.mysql.jdbc.StatementImpl.executeQuery(StatementImpl.java:1521)
......
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoader.main(JarRsrcLoader.java:58)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Packets received out of order
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readRemainingMultiPackets(MysqlIO.java:3152)
at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3077)
... 23 more
I have tried some method, such like:
set max_allowed_packet = 128 * 1024 * 1024 in /etc/my.conf
add ?autoReconnect=true&failOverReadOnly=false&maxReconnects=10 to my connection url
but nothing happens.
My environments is:
Mysql: 5.5.3-m3-log Source distribution
Java: 1.6.0_16
Jdk: HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.2-b01, mixed mode)
JDBC: mysql-connector-java-5.1.18

The problem are solved.
It is because the result is too huge. In my query , i used the default cursor, which is client-side cursors, This means, the whole resultant recordset of a SELECT is returned to the client (application) and the paging is done there. So the total result set is too big and make jdbc client out of memory.
The solution is that:
add "useCursorFetch=true" to JDBC URL configuration parameters
call statement.setFetchSize(100)
You can read more detail from : http://wiki.gxtechnical.com/commwiki/servlet/hwiki?Client%20and%20server%20cursors%20-%20using%20MySQL

This might happen when you try to commit with stale connection. Try checking for the connection state before doing the commit.

Can't make JDBC connection to MySQL (using Java, IntelliJ, and Linux)

I am having issues trying to get a database connection using the code below:
try {
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
Properties p = new Properties();
p.put("user", user_name);
p.put("password", password);
connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/jsp_test", p);
} catch (SQLException ex) {
// handle any errors
ex.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("SQLException: " + ex.getMessage());
System.out.println("SQLState: " + ex.getSQLState());
System.out.println("VendorError: " + ex.getErrorCode());
return false;
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
The error message that is outputted is:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java
-Didea.launcher.port=7532 -Didea.launcher.bin.path=/usr/bin/idea/bin
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/jce.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/about.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/resources.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/management-agent.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rt.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/sunpkcs11.jar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar:/home/bedtimes/Java
Projects/db_demo/out/production/db_demo:/opt/java/jre/lib/ext/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10-bin.jar:/usr/bin/idea/lib/idea_rt.jar com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain
Main
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException:
Communications link failure
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.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
Method) at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:406)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1074)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2214)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.(ConnectionImpl.java:781)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.(JDBC4Connection.java:46)
at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
Method) at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:406)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:352)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:284)
at
java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:620)
at
java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:169)
at
database.Database.connect(Database.java:80)
at Main.main(Main.java:13) at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native
Method) at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616)
at
com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:110)
Caused by:
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException:
Communications link failure
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.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
Method) at
sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at
java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:406)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1074)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.(MysqlIO.java:343)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2137)
... 18 more Caused by:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection
refused at
java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native
Method) at
java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:310)
at
java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:176)
at
java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:163)
at
java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:384)
at
java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:542)
at
java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:492)
at
java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:389)
at
java.net.Socket.(Socket.java:232)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.StandardSocketFactory.connect(StandardSocketFactory.java:253)
at
com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.(MysqlIO.java:292)
... 19 more SQLException:
Communications link failure
The last packet sent successfully to
the server was 0 milliseconds ago. The
driver has not received any packets
from the server. SQLState: 08S01
VendorError: 0
Process finished with exit code 0
I've, literally, no idea how to troubleshoot this error message. The database exists. The username and password exists. I've currently not added any tables to the database but I don't think that can be the issue, since I'm only making a connection after all...
I can provide extra information if needs be. I feel like I've tried a lot. Does anybody know any ways of getting further information on how and why it's failing?
Thanks for your help! :)

From your connection string, this database should be on the local machine. Can you try running this command to ensure the socket is open for connections?
telnet 127.0.0.1 3306
and ensure that it connects? You may not have configured your mysql instance to listen for connections from this machine or on this interface address. If the connection fails, you need to modify your mysql config, for example:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-enable-remote-access-to-mysql-database-server.html

I had the same symptoms but for me the solution was to change the bind-address to 0.0.0.0 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf
(Just posting this for others seeking an answer to this question)

You can try this instead:
connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jsp_test","user_name","password");

you can try one of the following
"jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jsp_test","username","password"
or
"jdbc:mysql://'your machines ip (without quote)':3306/jsp_test","username","password"
or
"jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/jsp_test","username","password"
as a connection string.