Java and Oracle: Creating a table

import java.sql.*;
import oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource;

class CreateTable {

  public static void main (String args[]) throws SQLException {
    OracleDataSource data_source = new OracleDataSource();

    data_source.setURL("jdbc:oracle:thin:rene/my_secret@localhost:1521:XE");

    Connection connection = data_source.getConnection();

    Statement  statement  = connection.createStatement();

    statement.executeUpdate(
      "create table jdbc_test (" +
      "  col_1   number,       " +
      "  col_2   varchar2(20), " +
      "  col_3   date)         " 
    );
  }
}