Bob,
Kyle Brown (who incidentally is a bartender here) wrote a good
article that walks you through using metadata. He shows how to get a list of tables (which you now know) and how to get column info from those tables..
Also, note that it is good practice to do JDBC outside the JSP. You can put it in a
Java class. Then call that class from a
servlet and forward to a JSP. This creates a cleaner, more maintainable JSP.