Connecting to MySQL database and retrieving and displaying data in JSP page

This tutorial shows you how to connect to MySQL database and retrieve the data from the database. In this example we will use tomcat version 4.0.3 to run our web application.

Creating Table in the database.

Using a JDBC driver

org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver Driver to connect to the database.


Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver").newInstance();

Connecting to your database

To connect to the database getConnection() function of the DriverManager class is used.

con=DriverManager.getConnection(url);

Executing Query and Processing result set

In this example we will use a table called jakartaproject having five fields in table. We will use the following query to retrieve all the records from the table:

select * from jakartaproject

Here is the code of our JSP file

<%@ page language="java" import="java.sql.*"%>
<html>
<head><title>Read from mySQL Database</title>
</head>
<body>

<p align="center"><b>Following records are selected from the 'jakartaproject' table.</b><br> </p>

<div align="center" width="85%">
<center>
<table border="1" borderColor="#ffe9bf" cellPadding="0" cellSpacing="0" width="658" height="63">
<tbody>
<td bgColor="#008080" width="47" align="center" height="19"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Sr.
No.</b></font></td>
<td bgColor="#008080" width="107" height="19"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Project</b></font></td>
<td bgColor="#008080" width="224" height="19"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Url
Address</b></font></td>
<td bgColor="#008080" width="270" height="19"><font color="#ffffff"><b>Description
of the project</b></font></td>

<%
String DRIVER = "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver";
Class.forName(DRIVER).newInstance();

Connection con=null;
ResultSet rst=null;
Statement stmt=null;

try{
String url="jdbc:mysql://192.168.10.2/tutorial?user=tutorial&password=tutorial";

int i=1;
con=DriverManager.getConnection(url);
stmt=con.createStatement();
rst=stmt.executeQuery("select * from jakartaproject ");
while(rst.next()){

if (i==(i/2)*2){
%>
<tr>
<td bgColor="#ffff98" vAlign="top" width="47" align="center" height="19"><%=i%>.</td>
<td bgColor="#ffff98" vAlign="top" width="107" height="19"><%=rst.getString(2)%></td>
<td bgColor="#ffff98" vAlign="top" width="224" height="19"><a href="<%=rst.getString(3)%>"><%=rst.getString(3)%></a> </td>
<td bgColor="#ffff98" vAlign="top" width="270" height="19"><%=rst.getString(4)%></td>
</tr>
<%
}else{
%>
<tr>
<td bgColor="#ffcc68" vAlign="top" width="47" align="center" height="19"><%=i%>.</td>
<td bgColor="#ffcc68" vAlign="top" width="107" height="19"><%=rst.getString(2)%></td>
<td bgColor="#ffcc68" vAlign="top" width="224" height="19"><a href="<%=rst.getString(3)%>"><%=rst.getString(3)%></a> </td>
<td bgColor="#ffcc68" vAlign="top" width="270" height="19"><%=rst.getString(4)%></td>
</tr>
<% }

i++;
}
rst.close();
stmt.close();
con.close();
}catch(Exception e){
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
%>

</tbody>
</table>
</center>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Deploying web application

Put the code in tomcat and test the application through browser. The browser should display the display the data stored in the table.

Connecting to MySQL database and retrieving and displaying data in JSP page

Connecting to MySQL database and retrieving and displaying data in JSP page

Connecting to MySQL database and retrieving and displaying data in JSP page

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