JDBC MySQL Issue

[Alex Petzinger <agent86@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greeting fellow mysql, tomcat, java. et al. users

I'm having a problem interacting with MySQL using JDBC with a test JSP and a servlet.

I haver  created and deploy simple anonymous servlets with my Tomcat installation (anonymous meaning just uncommenting the invoker servlet lines in the Tomcat specific web.xml file: /Library/Tenon/Tomcat/conf/web.xml  (see http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/ for more info).  This allows one not to have to configure and deploy an application specific web.xml for each servlet.  Just drop it in the /Library/Tenon/Tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes 

http://www.intrepid.ws/mysqljdbc.jsp 
My JSP reveals  (Getting Connection ... SQLException: Server configuration denies access to data source)

http://www.intrepid.ws/servlet/jdbcExample
My servlet reveals <x-tad-bigger>java.lang.ClassCastException

org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet.serveRequest(InvokerServlet.java:416)

org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet.doGet(InvokerServlet.java:180)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856

Following the advice of various MySQL websites, I executed </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-smaller>GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON [dbname].* to
'[user]'@'[hostname]' identified by
'[password]'
thane
flust privileges.
</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-bigger>All also put the neccessary mysql-connectory-java-3.1.8.-bin.jar in my CLASSPATH and in all the locations recommended. however, I had continue to see the same access errors.  Has anyone worked around this?

Thanks,
Alex </x-tad-bigger>