SQL tag not working

Question

This is killing me why this doesn't work. This is populating a SELECT. I have the exact same setup in another application. The only major difference is this use mysql, the one that works uses SQL Server 2000. Table name and columns are different too, but the point is the same thing; fill a SELECT with values.
The query appears to return nothing. I get a select with just a comma (",") in it.
<sql:setDataSource
     driver="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
     url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/FABL"
     user=""
     password="" />
<sql:query var="result">
     SELECT ID, FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME FROM CUSTOMERS ORDER BY LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME
</sql:query>
<select size="10" name="custid" size="1">
  <c:forEach items="${result.rows}" var="row">
     <option value="${row.id}">${row.lastname}, ${row.firstname}</option>
  </c:forEach>
</select>Thanks,
Karl

Answer 1

I am using JSP 2.0 so the <c:out> shouldn't be neededJSP 2.0 has nothing to do with it. It's JSTL 1.0 or 1.1 that matters. Which one are you using? (I use JSTL 1.0, hence the <c:out>)
There is no error. It just populates my SELECT with a single comma.Sure? I'd still add an error page that would display an exception if I got one.
Permissions shouldn't be a problem. I ripped the datasource URL, user, and password straight from a
bean that works fine.All that's fine, but MySQL GRANTs permission on an IP address basis. If the server on which the servlet/JSP engine runs isn't in the GRANT tables it won't have access.
But that wouldn't explain why you only get a comma. Frankly, I don't know based on what you've posted.
I'd break the problem down further. I'd write an object that would do the database work on my behalf and exercise it on the command line to make sure that it worked.
I'd move all that SQL code out of the JSP and onto the middle tier where it belongs. I'd have the Java Bean that I just wrote to do the database interactions on my behalf in a <jsp:useBean> tag and simply iterate through the list of returned values. That's what JSPs are really for: display, not server side things like database interactions.