com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Com

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure

The last packet successfully received from the server was 276 milliseconds ago.  The last packet sent successfully to the server was 50 milliseconds ago.
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createCommunicationsException(SQLError.java:1116)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3591)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3480)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:4021)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2490)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2651)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2671)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2621)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.StatementImpl.executeQuery(StatementImpl.java:1557)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.loadServerVariables(ConnectionImpl.java:3892)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.initializePropsFromServer(ConnectionImpl.java:3437)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2437)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2207)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:797)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:47)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:411)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.getInstance(ConnectionImpl.java:389)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:305)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:185)
        at TestJDBC.getConnection(TestJDBC.java:19)
        at TestJDBC.testResult(TestJDBC.java:76)
        at TestJDBC.main(TestJDBC.java:13)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: Can not read response from server. Expected to read 4 bytes, read 0 bytes before connection was unexpectedly lost.
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.readFully(MysqlIO.java:3041)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.reuseAndReadPacket(MysqlIO.java:3491)
        ... 25 more
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at TestJDBC.testResult(TestJDBC.java:77)
        at TestJDBC.main(TestJDBC.java:13)