How To connect sql server to java application

package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.core;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;

public class ConnectToSQLServer {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    Connection connection = null;
    try {
        // Load the NetDirect JDBC driver
        String driverName = "com.jnetdirect.jsql.JSQLDriver";
        Class.forName(driverName);

        // Create a connection to the database
        String serverName = "localhost";
        String serverPort = "1433";
        String database = serverName + ":" + serverPort;
        String url = "jdbc:JSQLConnect://" + database;
        String username = "username";
        String password = "password";
        connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
       
        System.out.println("Successfully Connected to the database!");
       
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        System.out.println("Could not find the database driver " + e.getMessage());
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        System.out.println("Could not connect to the database " + e.getMessage());
    }

 }

}


Output:

Successfully Connected to the database!