Open a JDBC connection

//This opens a JDBC connection givine a driver class name, database URL, user name and password. It is possible this method is deprecated and some newer procedure is preferred. I need to look into that.

/*
** driverClass is the JDBC driver class name as a String.
*/

try
{
Class.forName (driverClass);
connection = DriverManager.getConnection (url,
userName, password);
connection.setAutoCommit (false);
}
catch (SQLException ex)
{
/*
** "Connect error"...
*/
}
catch (java.lang.ClassNotFoundException ex)
{
/*
** "Driver error"...
*/
}