I am trying to connect to Mysql by creating a datasource using WAS 6.0 by following the steps mentioned in http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/31571/1954. But when i test the connection, I get a MySQLNonTransientConnection EXception. I tried the steps mentioned on the net to get this resolved for example different mysql connector, increasing the max_connections etc but to no avail. Kindly help me out.