activate a servlet in jsp

hi,i have a servlet for my database connection and i have specified the url ,username,password in the web.xml file .when i try to activate the servlet using jsp forward it does not get activated.i am not connected to the database.can anybody help in this.thanks
[289 byte] By [greatchivi] at [2007-9-26 3:07:03]
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Hiplease be more specific.You can't connect to database or you can't do forward to servlet ?
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