Access Denied

[Peter Hawtree]

I Have just installed mySQL and the JDBC driver on my machine for a degree project.
I have wriiten a simple test program to test the connection.
My connection statement is: con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql:///test", "root", "secret");

which throws the following exception:

Exception: Access denied for user 'root' @ 'localhost' (using password: YES)

Any advice on how to clear this up would be great!

Cheers!

Pete