I have a slight problem.

I'm trying to code a bulletin board system from scratch, but one problem I keep butting up on is trying to get linebreaks displayed when retrieving data from a MySQL database. I use the datatype longtext, and it does keep the linebreaks in the database, but I need to know how to get the JSP page to place <br/> tags where the breaks are so that they show up on the display page. Can anyone offer any help?