I am trying to connect to Local Dynamo DB using the AWS Java SDK. So I installed the Local Dynamo DB and started the javascript shell. All works fine and the shell starts at the usual address `http://localhost:8000/shell/`

Now when I try to access the Dynamo DB Instance via the AWS SDK things start to break.

Here is my code:

```java
public class MyDynamoDB {
    private AmazonDynamoDBClient client;

    public MyDynamoDB() {
        client = new AmazonDynamoDBClient();
        client.setEndpoint("http://localhost:8000");
    }

    public void saveAndLoad() {
        DynamoDBMapperConfig config = new DynamoDBMapperConfig(new TableNameOverride("xyz"));
        DynamoDBMapper mapper = new DynamoDBMapper(client, config);
        Data data = new Data();
        ...
        mapper.save(data);

        //check if persisted
        Data d = mapper.load(Data.class, "Key");
        if (d != null) {
            System.out.println(" Found data: " + d.getStuff());
        } else {
            System.out.println("Data not found");
        }
    }
}

```

On running this I am getting the following stack trace

```
Nov 19, 2015 4:00:47 PM com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient executeHelper
INFO: Unable to execute HTTP request: Connection refused: connect
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.waitForConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.http.conn.scheme.PlainSocketFactory.connectSocket(PlainSocketFactory.java:117)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:177)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedClientConnectionImpl.open(ManagedClientConnectionImpl.java:304)

```