MS Access & MS SQL from a Java Server Page

Question

I'm new to JSP but I know how to write Active Server Pages and was wondering how to set up a JSP so that I can access data in my MS Access database and also my MS SQL server.
Anyone have code snippets that connect to these two databases, retrieve and update data in a table?
Also, what's the easiest way to deploy a JSP page, I've got J2EE, JDK, Tomcat, Apache installed not sure how to just deploy a JSP page so I can test it.
Thanks in advance,
dez

Answer 1

the above connection example is ok, to deploy the jsp first you need of course
Apache with some servlet container such Tomcat or Resin or JServ...
For Tomcat there should be an folder in server root where the static pages are to be put
(as htdocs in apache for example) for every application, and usually is webapps and in this folder
you put another folder that will contain all of your stuff. In this folder, let say is named myapp, you
can put the jsp's and html's. Yes you can simply put it there but for the jsp to work you need in
this folder another one named WEB-INF that must have an xml file named web.xml where you must
set up a lot of stuff for your web-application, you can for test just to copy it from
wbapps\examples\WEB-INF\web.xml and
delete everything between <web-app></web-app>. Then start or restart your web server and if the
jsp is in webapps\myapp and it is named test.jsp then type in your browser:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/myapp/test.jsp.
Another thing: for the connection to work of course the connection parameters should be ok and the
database connection driver should be put in the tomcats classes classpath.
Just put it in webapps\myapp\WEB-INF\classes... where ... is of course the package folders.
Hope I'd helped you a little bit.
whiteadi