Hello !!
Thankx for all ur reply's. Actually i m very new to this jsp programming , i dont really know much abt all this, just followng a few books and tutorials to make it work, but i think u r right on all that they used the older versions that is not even available online, and may be i m having version incompatibility or version conflict problem.

Anyways can anyone tell me that if i am using apache-tomcat-5.5.23, so do i still need to install apache server separately and make connection with tomcat later on??

As I m using different working codes from some books and websites, they usually give me error on my connection string and some root errors like:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Communication link failure: java.io.EOFException, underlying cause: null

My connection string is

Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:8009/login? user=root&password=asma");

Root would be the default username as i haven't set it and "asma" would be the password that i set wile installing MySQL server.

My all other jsp pages working fine , only having problem in connecting with database.

I have tried ur suggestion of putting the files as well as seting CLASSPATH but neither of it worked.

I'll be thankful if anyone can help in this regard