How to Make JDBC Connection to Oracle 11g Release 2

Oracle 11g Release 2 of the JDBC connection seems to be different, if you receive the following exception: Listener refused the connection with the following error: ORA-12505, TNS: listener does not currently know of SID given in connect descriptor. Then you must use the following connections:

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 package com.kodehelp.java.sample;
 
 import java.sql.Connection;
 import java.sql.DriverManager;
 import java.sql.ResultSet;
 import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.sql.Statement;
 
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 public class ConnectJDBCOracle11g {
 
 / **
  * This class demonstrates the code for connecting Oracle 11g database using JDBC.
  * @ Param args
 * /
 public static void main (String [] args) {
	 String JDBC_DRIVER = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
	 String JDBC_STRING = "jdbc: odbc: thin: @ HOSTNAME: PORTNUMBER / SID"; / / in case of 11g use '/' instead of:
	 String USER_NAME = "USER_NAME";
	 String PASSWD = "PASSWORD";
	 Connection conn = null;
	 ResultSet rs = null;
	 Statement stmt = null;
	 try {
		 Class.forName (JDBC_DRIVER);
		 conn = DriverManager.getConnection (JDBC_STRING, USER_NAME, PASSWD);
		 stmt = conn.createStatement ();
 
		 String query = "SELECT * FROM TABLE TBL";
		 rs = stmt.executeQuery (query);
	 } Catch (SQLException sqlEx) {
		 sqlEx.printStackTrace ();
	 } Catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
		 e.printStackTrace ();
	 } Finally {
		 try {
			 if (rs! = null) rs.close ();
			 if (stmt! = null) stmt.close ();
			 if (conn! = null) conn.close ();
		 } Catch (SQLException e) {
			 e.printStackTrace ();
		 }
	 }
 }
 }