GetStudent.java

<h3><m:student>Joe Jones</m:student></h3> <hr />

(EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE) - The Students information is Joe Jones

package mytags;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.*;
import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;

public class GetStudent extends BodyTagSupport {
    private String name;
    private JspWriter out;
    static final String JDBC_DRIVER = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
    static final String DB_URL = "jdbc:mysql://localhost/cs4010";
    static final String USER = "cs4010";
    static final String PASS = "cs4010";

    public int doStartTag() throws JspException {
        out=pageContext.getOut();
        try {
            out.print("(<font color='BLUE'>EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE</font>) - The Students information is ");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE;
    }
// TheStudent() is not called
    public String TheStudent(String who){
        Connection conn = null;
        Statement stmt = null;
        String theReturn="";
        try {
            Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
            conn = DriverManager.getConnection(DB_URL,USER,PASS);
            stmt = conn.createStatement();
            String this_query="SELECT name, year, test FROM student where name=\"";
            this_query=this_query+who+"\";";
            ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(this_query);
            while (rs.next()) {
                String the_name = rs.getString("name");
                String the_year = rs.getString("year");
                int the_grade = rs.getInt("test");
                theReturn="Name: " + the_name + " Year: "+the_year+" Grade: "+the_grade;
            }
            rs.close();
            stmt.close();
            conn.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return theReturn;
    }
}