student db util

StudentDbUtil.java

package com.luv2code.web.jdbc;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

public class StudentDbUtil {
   private DataSource dataSource;
   public StudentDbUtil(DataSource theDataSource) {
	   dataSource=theDataSource;
   }
   public List<Student> getStudents() throws Exception{
	   List<Student> students=new ArrayList<>();
	   Connection myConn=null;
	   Statement myStmt=null;
	   ResultSet myRs=null;
	   try {
	   // get a connection 
		   myConn=dataSource.getConnection();
		   
	   // create sql statement
		   String sql="select * from student order by last_name";
		   myStmt=myConn.createStatement();
	   //execute query
		   myRs=myStmt.executeQuery(sql);
	   //process result set
		   while(myRs.next()) {
			   //retreive data from result set row
			   int id=myRs.getInt("id");
			   String firstName=myRs.getString("first_name");
			   String lastName=myRs.getString("last_name");
			   String email=myRs.getString("email");
			  
			   //creaate new student object
			   Student tempStudent=new Student(id,firstName,lastName,email);
			   
			   //add it to thelist of student
			   students.add(tempStudent);
		   }
	   
		   return students;

	   }
	   finally {
		 //close jdbc object
		   close(myConn,myStmt,myRs);
	   }
   }
private void close(Connection myConn, Statement myStmt, ResultSet myRs) {
	// TODO Auto-generated method stub
	try {
		if(myRs!=null) {
			myRs.close();
		}
		if(myStmt!=null) {
			myStmt.close();
		}
		if(myConn!=null) {
			myConn.close();// doesnot really close it..just puts back in connection
		}
			
	}
	catch(Exception exc) {
		exc.printStackTrace();
	}
	
}
}