diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7ecfad0..9f7aca9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -59,6 +59,13 @@
     <artifactId>json</artifactId>
     <version>20220320</version>
 </dependency>
+<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.postgresql/postgresql -->
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
+    <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
+    <version>42.6.0</version>
+</dependency>
+
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
       <artifactId>quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/constants/PSGQL.java b/src/main/java/constants/PSGQL.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7172bc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/constants/PSGQL.java
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package constants;
+
+public class PSGQL {
+    public final String url = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/ScanDB";
+    public final String user = "ncaughey";
+    public final String password = "";
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/java/dto/ConnectDB.java b/src/main/java/dto/ConnectDB.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f887008
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/dto/ConnectDB.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package dto;
+
+// import constants.PSGQL;
+
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.DriverManager;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+
+public class ConnectDB{
+
+    // private final String url = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost/dvdrental";
+    // private final String user = "postgres";
+    // private final String password = "<add your password>";
+    private final String url = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/scandb";
+    private final String user = "postgres";
+    private final String password = "password";
+
+    /**
+     * Connect to the PostgreSQL database
+     *
+     * @return a Connection object
+     */
+    public Connection connect() {
+        Connection conn = null;
+        try {
+            conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
+            System.out.println("Connected to the PostgreSQL server successfully.");
+        } catch (SQLException e) {
+            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
+        }
+
+        return conn;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/rest/CreateGetResource.java b/src/main/java/rest/CreateGetResource.java
index cfc078a..3347dbb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/rest/CreateGetResource.java
+++ b/src/main/java/rest/CreateGetResource.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.Set;
 import dto.ScanObj;
+import dto.ConnectDB;
 
 import javax.ws.rs.DELETE;
 import javax.ws.rs.GET;
@@ -29,7 +30,19 @@ public class CreateGetResource {
 
     private Set<ScanObj> Scans = Collections.newSetFromMap(Collections.synchronizedMap(new LinkedHashMap<>()));
 
+
     public CreateGetResource() {
+    ConnectDB connectDB = new ConnectDB();
+    connectDB.connect();
+    // Connection conn = null; 
+
+    // try {
+    //     conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user,password);
+    //     System.out.println("connected to PGSQL");
+    // } catch (SQLException e) {
+    //     System.out.println(e.getMessage());
+    // }
+
         //example used to show the get obviously needs deleting
         Scans.add(new ScanObj("a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a","a"));
     }