i was having the same problem using
tomcat on webappcabaret.com... i had the jsp/servlets working on orion server, but for some reason i could not get the tomcat server to work.
so, i installed tomcat on my desktop and got it to work. the jsp file identifies the bean as:
jsp:useBean
id="studentList"
class="dataaccess.StudentListBean"
the bean is in a directory that is in the /classes directory. so, the bean path is ../web-inf/classes/dataaccess
i am not that familiar with jsp yet, but i hope this helps.