&lt;jsp:useBean id="enq" scope="page" class="test.dbtest"/&gt;<br />
&lt;html&gt;<br />
&lt;head&gt;<br />
&lt;title&gt;e-mail address query&lt;/title&gt;<br />
&lt;/head&gt;<br />
&lt;body&gt;<br />
<br />
&lt;% enq.setUsername(request.getParameterValues("username")[0]); %&gt;<br />
&lt;% enq.setConnected(true); %&gt;<br />
<br />
e-mail address of &lt;%= enq.getUsername() %&gt;<br />
is &lt;%= enq.getPassword() %&gt;.<br />
<br />
&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;<br />
<br />
&lt;%= new java.util.Date() %&gt;<br />
<br />
&lt;% enq.setConnected(false); %&gt;<br />
<br />
&lt;/body&gt;<br />
&lt;/html&gt;