title: Loop attempt to connect to JDBC
body: <p>I'm trying to create an application for checking in and out devices. So far I've had success but I'm trying to have the main index.jsp page that is called display a message like "connecting" until a connection with the database can actually be made and then display the actual login form. So something to the effect of.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Connection con = null;
  String driver = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver";
  Class.forName(driver).newInstance();
  boolean connected = false;
  
  while(!connected) {
      try{
          String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test";
          con = DriverManager.getConnection(url,"username","password");
          connected = true;
  
          //Display form allowing user to authenticate login
  
      } catch(Exception e) {
          //Display Message "Attempting to connect to database"
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem I have is the same message will get repeated over and over on the web page but i just want it to display once and stay there until the connection is found and then be removed and replace with the login form. Any thoughts?</p>