Creating a database connection and using properties files

DbConnector.java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
@ConfigurationProperties("spring.datasource")
public class DbConnector {
	
	private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(DbConnector.class);
	
	public Connection getConnection() throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException, IOException {
		
		Properties dbProps = new Properties();
		InputStream in = ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("application.properties");
		dbProps.load(in);
		
		String driverClassName = dbProps.getProperty("spring.datasource.driver-class-name");
		String url = dbProps.getProperty("spring.datasource.url");
		String username = dbProps.getProperty("spring.datasource.username");
		String password = dbProps.getProperty("spring.datasource.password");
		
		logger.debug("Connecting with db type: " + driverClassName);
		Class.forName(driverClassName);
		
		logger.debug("Using: ");
		logger.debug(" URL: " + url);
		logger.debug(" DbUser: " + username);
		logger.debug(" DbPasswd: " + password);
		Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
		
		return connection;
	}
	
	public void close() throws IOException {
		try {
			getConnection().close();
		} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (SQLException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
	
	public ResultSet query(String sql) throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException, IOException {
		
		Statement stmt = getConnection().createStatement();
		ResultSet results = stmt.executeQuery(sql);
		return results;
		
	}
}