Aplicação java Web conectando ao banco de dados

public class ConnectItem {
	public static Connection getConnection() {
		try {
			Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
			Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(
					"jdbc:mysql://leilaoaika.mysql.uhserver.com/leilaoaika", "mkbatista", "mkdb@01");
	          
			return con;
		} catch (Exception ex) {
			System.out.println("Database.getConnection() Error -->"
					+ ex.getMessage());
			return null;
		}
	}

	public static void close(Connection con) {
		try {
			con.close();
		} catch (Exception ex) {
		}
	}