NullPointerException with Struts

I am trying to use Eclipse to develop an application using Struts and Resin. Running into a problem trying to access a database within an action bean. The code,
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver").newInstance();
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection ("jdbc:odbc:BIPSDB", "BIPSLogon", "bi4agt");
try {
Statement stmt2 = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt2.executeQuery("SELECT * from Users");
Everything goes fine until it tries to open the result set, where it gets the NullPointerException.
When I put this code into the JSP page itself, it works fine.
Anyone have this same problem??

The ".newInstance()" was something I saw in one of the books, and it is probably not needed. But it did not hurt. I was doing alot of trial and error.
I think that my DB is being found, otherwise the connection methods would probably fail. Also, when I put the same code directly into the JSP page, it reads the database just fine. It seems to be only when the DB access it put into a Struts Action module.
The problem is definitely when the result set is being built, and I tried to step through the code with Eclipse to find it. However, there are so many calls and classes to go through, the interface times out.
The more I think about it, the more it seems to be a bug in Struts. I am using the 1.1-b2 version.
Thanks for your input.

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