Connection Sql Server using Java

package com.javatutorials;

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

public class SqlServerConnection {
    public static Connection connection = null;
    public static Connection getDbConnection() {
        try {
            Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
            connection = DriverManager
                    .getConnection("jdbc:odbc:mydsn;user=sa;password=sa12$");
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SQLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return connection;
    }

    public static void closeConnection() {
        if (connection != null)
            try {
                connection.close();
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
    }
}

mydsn in the above class is the dsn created to connect to sql server using jdbc-odbc connection.

The dsn  creating process can be found at : Create SQL Server dsn