diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f0a7210..2fc6ec6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -84,3 +84,4 @@ lint/generated/
 lint/outputs/
 lint/tmp/
 # lint/reports/
+Lambdas/Lists/src/main/resources/dbProperties.json
diff --git a/Lambdas/Lists/pom.xml b/Lambdas/Lists/pom.xml
index 2c6ea85..9442b49 100644
--- a/Lambdas/Lists/pom.xml
+++ b/Lambdas/Lists/pom.xml
@@ -24,5 +24,19 @@
             <artifactId>aws-lambda-java-log4j2</artifactId>
             <version>1.2.0</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.json</groupId>
+            <artifactId>json</artifactId>
+            <version>20200518</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>3.8.1</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
+    <properties>
+        <maven.compiler.source>1.11</maven.compiler.source>
+        <maven.compiler.target>1.11</maven.compiler.target>
+    </properties>
 </project>
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diff --git a/Lambdas/Lists/src/main/java/DBConnector.java b/Lambdas/Lists/src/main/java/DBConnector.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c4f85b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lambdas/Lists/src/main/java/DBConnector.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.DriverManager;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+public class DBConnector {
+
+    Connection connection;
+
+    DBConnector() throws IOException, SQLException {
+        this(loadProperties("dbProperties.json"));
+    }
+
+    DBConnector(Properties dbProperties) throws SQLException {
+        System.out.println(dbProperties);
+        connection = DriverManager.getConnection(dbProperties.get("url").toString(), dbProperties);
+
+    }
+
+    public static Properties loadProperties(String path) throws IOException {
+        Properties toReturn = new Properties();
+        String propertiesJSONString = Files.readString(Path.of(path));
+        JSONObject propertiesJSON = new JSONObject(propertiesJSONString);
+        propertiesJSON.keys().forEachRemaining(key -> toReturn.setProperty(key, propertiesJSON.get(key).toString()));
+        return toReturn;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/Lambdas/Lists/src/main/java/ListAdd.java b/Lambdas/Lists/src/main/java/ListAdd.java
index fe0354b..d5a698b 100644
--- a/Lambdas/Lists/src/main/java/ListAdd.java
+++ b/Lambdas/Lists/src/main/java/ListAdd.java
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
@@ -17,6 +19,13 @@ public class ListAdd implements RequestHandler<Map<String,Object>, String>{
         }
         System.out.println(inputMap.get("context"));
         System.out.println(contextMap.get("sub"));
+        try {
+            System.out.println(new DBConnector());
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        } catch (SQLException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
         return null;
     }
 }
diff --git a/Lambdas/Lists/src/main/java/ListAdder.java b/Lambdas/Lists/src/main/java/ListAdder.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..413b7db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lambdas/Lists/src/main/java/ListAdder.java
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+public class ListAdder {
+
+
+}
diff --git a/Lambdas/Lists/target/classes/dbProperties.json b/Lambdas/Lists/target/classes/dbProperties.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba1352b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lambdas/Lists/target/classes/dbProperties.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "url": "http://aws.com/something",
+  "user": "aUser",
+  "password": "aPassword"
+}
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