Don't make it unique. Make it functional.

Unique sites don't get used. Functional sites do.

Regards,

Nate

There is a lot to think about here...

First, are you going to build the whole system in JSP? Using a combination of servlets with JSP would be much better.

Is everything going to be secure? ...

You should be creating a new topic for a new question. You also might want to be asking this question in the JavaScript (http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum143.html) forum.

Regards,
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You should be able to find the driver from the Microsoft SQL server site: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/default.mspx

If that doesn't work, you should also be able to use the ODBC-JDBC bridge...