Connecting Java to MySQL

[snowstorm]

This may be more of a mysql question than a java question, but I will ask anyway.
I have a TestMySQL class which goes through all the necessary steps to connect java to mysql, but I want to connect it to a database which is configured to be on localhost on my server. When writing php, I just use localhost as the server, but is there a way to access it from my computer using a java program such as this?

Thanks

[Phaelax]

Just use localhost as the server in java then.

This link is to an early program i've started. It connects to mysql on my machine as localhost. I would just paste the code section you need to see, but im at work and we dont have winzip on these computers.

http://kff.dbspot.com/KFF.zip

[snowstorm]

the mysql is not on my machine though. Its on a separate computer and set up on that one as localhost.

[Phaelax]

so then you'll have to run your program from that server, unless they allow outside connections