MySQLSyntaxErrorException when creating table

I am fairly new to MySQL with Java, but I have executed a few successful INSERT queries however cannot seem to get the CREATE TABLE query to execute without getting the MySQLSyntaxErrorException exception. My code is as follows:

Statement stmt;
String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql";
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, "root", "password");
stmt = con.createStatement();
String tblSQL = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS \'dev\'.\'testTable\' (\n"
                + " \'id\' int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,\n"
                + " \'date\' smallint(6) NOT NULL\n"
                + ") ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;";
stmt.executeUpdate(tblSQL);
stmt.close();
con.close();

And the error is as follows:

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException:
    You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to 
    your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''dev'.'testTable' (
   'id' int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
   'date' smallint(6) N' at line开发者_Python百科 1

I would appreciate it if anyone could spot the mistake in this query, as I've tried executing this within phpMyAdmin and it works as it should.

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\n will make press enter effect :) make it like

String tblSQL = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `dev`.`testTable`"
            + "("
            + "id INTEGER(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT primary key,"
            + "date smallint(6) NOT NULL"
            + ")"
            + "ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;";