> so i am trying to run a servlet that uses the jaybird (
> FirebirdSQL-1.5.0Beta3JDK_1.4.zip) drivers

Can you try your code with most recent version of the driver
(currently RC3)?

> org.apache.jasper.JasperException: while resolving class:
> org.firebirdsql.jca.FBManagedConnection
> at

It seems that JayBird classes are not found. Please check your classpath.

Roman