Using a class in a web module

Question

I'm using netbeans and the web module template.
I'm pretty new to jsp, so please bare with me. I just want to be able to use a class in my jsp page.
I have 2 files:
WEB-INF/classes/Customer
index.jsp
in the Customer Class, i declare the package at the top:
package com.mycompany.data
public Class Customer {
in index.jsp, I want to use the Customer Class. I try like this:
<%@ page import="com.mycompany.data.*" %>
<%
Customer cust = new Customer();
%>
I keep getting an error in index.jsp on both the page directive and on the line where I declare and instantiate the Customer object.
Can someone inform me or point me to the right place to understand how to use a class in a .jsp?
Thanks

Answer 1

If the class Customer is in package com.mycompany.data
Then Customer.class should be a file in
web-inf/classes/com/mycompany/data/Customer.class
Apart from that it looks ok.
You might consider using a <jsp:useBean> tag instead of declaring customer in a scriptlet.
I'm very much a fan of minimum scriptlet code on a page.
Cheers,
evnafets