How to reference a DatabaseHandler servlet class from a jsp file in Tomcat

Question

Trying to create a database connection in the jsp file in webapps\project folder by referencing the DatabaseHandler class in webapps\project\WEB-INF\classes.
Here is the code in the jsp to make the connection:
DatabaseHandler db = new DatabaseHandler() ;
String sql = "SELECT password FROM cms_users WHERE user =" + userName ;
java.sql.ResultSet rs = db . selectQuery( sql ) ;
Here is the DatabaseHandler class:
import java.sql.*;
public class DatabaseHandler
     // instance variables - replace the example below with your own
private Connection connection;
     * Constructor for objects of class DatabaseHandler
     public DatabaseHandler()
String url = "jdbc:odbc:javadatabase";
// Load the driver to allow connection to the database
try
Class.forName( "sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver" );
connection = DriverManager.getConnection( url );
catch ( ClassNotFoundException cnfex )
System.err.println( "Failed to load JDBC/ODBC driver." );
cnfex.printStackTrace();
System.exit( 1 ); // terminate program
catch ( SQLException sqlex )
System.err.println( "Unable to connect" );
sqlex.printStackTrace();
public ResultSet selectQuery( String query )
Statement statement;
ResultSet resultSet = null ;
try
statement = connection.createStatement();
resultSet = statement.executeQuery( query );
catch ( SQLException sqlex )
sqlex.printStackTrace();
System . exit( 1 ) ;
return resultSet ;
Here is the error i am getting when i try to run the jsp script:
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
An error occurred at line: 2 in the jsp file: /ValidateLogon.jsp
Generated servlet error:
[javac] Compiling 1 source file
C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\work\Standalone\localhost\cms\ValidateLogon_jsp.java:47: cannot find symbol
symbol : class DatabaseHandler
location: class org.apache.jsp.ValidateLogon_jsp
DatabaseHandler db = new DatabaseHandler() ;
^

Answer 1

Just like in the class file you need to import any classes that you want to access in the JSP.
http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/tags/11/syntaxref11.fm7.html