How do I form my database URL ?

[James Adams]

Sorry if this is elementary, I haven't been able to find this info in the MySQL manual or from various Google searches. Basically I have MySQL 4.1.8-nt installed on my Windows XP machine and I need to provide a database URL for Hibernate and I'm not sure of how I specify this URL. Here are the database configuration values which are used in creating the URL (from what I can tell):

host = localhost, or nassau.harborside.local (actual name)
port = 3306
database name = notebook

I have tried the following with no success:

jdbc:mysql:thin:@localhost:3306:notebook
jdbc:mysql:thin://nassau:3306:notebook
jdbc:mysql://localhost/notebook

If someone can direct me to a site which explains how to create a database URL from a particular set of database configuration values then I'd certainly appreciate the help. Thanks in advance...


--James