Out.println in Bean & Javax.servlet.jsp

I'm having a problem writing to a webpage using out.println from inside a bean class.  Below, I'm including my best conjectures and also the information that I think an expert would want.  If I'm going in a wrong direction, let me know.  Again, my need is to print to a webpage from inside a bean class.

Currently, I am usering JSP code with some embedded <% java code using out.println %>.  I want to move the <% java code %> out of the JSP, into a bean class.  But, in the bean class, out.println doesn't work.  

I have reviewed the one Experts Exchange message I can find on this topic...  'How to perform out.println() from class'... and know I can't use out.println directly in the bean.  If I understand what TimYates and JugglerW said, I have to pass into a print method I make, either java.io.Writer or javax.servlet.jsp.JspWriter's 'out' object, so the out.println method can be found.  

And, I think that's where my problem starts.  I don't seem to have all the needed javax.servlet.[...] resources I would expect. ( So, I'm probably dealing with an import or a CLASSPATH problem.)

In my class, when I try to import javax.servlet.jsp.JspWriter (see TimYates comments in other message), intellisense doesn't find javax.servlet.jsp or anything descendant.  And, this also seems to verify that javax.servlet.[...] isn't on a build path somewhere.  More on that later...

Here's the top of my bean class...

package gov.vha.hvm.deliveryservice.scs.jsp;
import gov.vha.hvm.deliveryservice.scs.persistence.DataStore;
import gov.vha.hvm.deliveryservice.scs.persistence.impl.*;
import gov.vha.hvm.deliveryservice.scs.model.domain.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.lang.*;
import java.util.Collection;
import javax.servlet.*;
public class SubscriptionCalls {
      private static String topNm;
      public static void AddTopics(javax.servlet.jsp.JspWriter out){
            DataStore ds = TransientDataStoreImpl.getInstance();      
            Collection topics = ds.getTopics(); Iterator
            iterTopics = topics.iterator();
            while (iterTopics.hasNext()){
                  Topic topic = (Topic)iterTopics.next();
                  topNm=topic.getName();
                  out.println("<OPTION name='entryTopic' value='"+topNm+"'>"+topNm+"</OPTION>");
            }
      }

The error listed for the out.println("<OPTION...</OPTION>"); line above is...

     javax.servlet.jsp cannot be resolved (or is not a valid type) for the
     parameter out of the method AddTopics

My understanding is that javax.servlet.jsp.[...' should be in either Tomcat's servlet-api.jar or in servlet.jar.  These two jar's are both in my CLASSAPATH, which includes both...

      c:\Tomcat\common\lib\servlet-api.jar    and...
      c:\j2re1.4.2_05\lib\ext\servlet.jar

Below, I have included the contents of both jar's showing that javax.servlet.jsp.[...] is not in either jar.

Here are the contents of servlet.jar...

C:\j2re1.4.2_05\lib\ext>jar tf servlet.jar
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
javax/servlet/LocalStrings.properties
javax/servlet/http/LocalStrings.properties
javax/servlet/http/HttpServlet.class
javax/servlet/http/NoBodyResponse.class
javax/servlet/http/NoBodyOutputStream.class
javax/servlet/http/Cookie.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionBindingEvent.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSession.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionBindingListener.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionContext.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpUtils.class
javax/servlet/GenericServlet.class
javax/servlet/ServletInputStream.class
javax/servlet/RequestDispatcher.class
javax/servlet/Servlet.class
javax/servlet/ServletConfig.class
javax/servlet/ServletContext.class
javax/servlet/ServletException.class
javax/servlet/ServletOutputStream.class
javax/servlet/ServletRequest.class
javax/servlet/ServletResponse.class
javax/servlet/SingleThreadModel.class
javax/servlet/UnavailableException.class

Here are the contents of servlet-api.jar...

C:\Tomcat\common\lib>jar tf servlet-api.jar
META-INF/
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
javax/
javax/servlet/
javax/servlet/http/
javax/servlet/resources/
javax/servlet/ServletResponse.class
javax/servlet/ServletOutputStream.class
javax/servlet/FilterChain.class
javax/servlet/ServletRequest.class
javax/servlet/ServletInputStream.class
javax/servlet/RequestDispatcher.class
javax/servlet/ServletException.class
javax/servlet/ServletConfig.class
javax/servlet/ServletContext.class
javax/servlet/Servlet.class
javax/servlet/GenericServlet.class
javax/servlet/UnavailableException.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.class
javax/servlet/http/Cookie.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponseWrapper.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionBindingEvent.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionEvent.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSession.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionContext.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequestWrapper.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionActivationListener.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionAttributeListener.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionBindingListener.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpUtils.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpServlet.class
javax/servlet/http/NoBodyResponse.class
javax/servlet/http/NoBodyOutputStream.class
javax/servlet/http/HttpSessionListener.class
javax/servlet/http/LocalStrings.properties
javax/servlet/http/LocalStrings_es.properties
javax/servlet/http/LocalStrings_ja.properties
javax/servlet/http/LocalStrings_fr.properties
javax/servlet/ServletResponseWrapper.class
javax/servlet/ServletRequestWrapper.class
javax/servlet/SingleThreadModel.class
javax/servlet/FilterConfig.class
javax/servlet/ServletContextListener.class
javax/servlet/ServletContextEvent.class
javax/servlet/Filter.class
javax/servlet/ServletContextAttributeListener.class
javax/servlet/ServletContextAttributeEvent.class
javax/servlet/ServletRequestAttributeEvent.class
javax/servlet/ServletRequestEvent.class
javax/servlet/ServletRequestAttributeListener.class
javax/servlet/ServletRequestListener.class
javax/servlet/LocalStrings_ja.properties
javax/servlet/LocalStrings_fr.properties
javax/servlet/LocalStrings.properties
javax/servlet/resources/j2ee_web_services_1_1.xsd
javax/servlet/resources/j2ee_1_4.xsd
javax/servlet/resources/XMLSchema.dtd
javax/servlet/resources/j2ee_web_services_client_1_1.xsd
javax/servlet/resources/web-app_2_3.dtd
javax/servlet/resources/web-app_2_2.dtd
javax/servlet/resources/jspxml.xsd
javax/servlet/resources/xml.xsd
javax/servlet/resources/web-app_2_4.xsd
javax/servlet/resources/datatypes.dtd
javax/servlet/resources/web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd
javax/servlet/resources/jsp_2_0.xsd

So, what is my problem?  Why can't I write to out.println in my bean class?  Is it because I don't have access to javax.servlet.jsp.JspWriter and so don't have access to it's println method?