usebean not working, Tomcat saying cannot find class

[Nawab]

Hello all....im fairly new at all this. I have tomcat 5.0.18 running
as standalone....it was woring fune until i tried learning the beans
and using the jsp:usebean tag......Tomcat is telling me cannot find
the class....can someone please help....really new at this....took me
forever to get tomcat configured.....also....do i need to install
Ant...cuz i have not yet....any really good links teaching jsp's....i
really want to get these beans to work.....any help and guidence is
appreciated....ciao........nawab