¿Cómo puedo insertar y eliminar valor en una base de datos en derby en JSP?

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El problema es que no puedo eliminar al cliente de la base de datos. Puedo crear un nuevo cliente, pero si dejo en blanco los campos, se crea un registro vacío en la base de datos, pero creo un criterio if.

El client.java:

public class client implements DatabaseConnection{

private static Connection conn = null;

private static void createConnection(){
try {
  conn = DriverManager.getConnection(URL, USER, PASSWORD);
} catch (SQLException ex) {
  Logger.getLogger(client.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
}

private static void closeConnection(){
if (conn != null){
  try {
    conn.close();
  } catch (SQLException ex) {
    Logger.getLogger(client.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
  }
}
}

public List clientList(){
    createConnection();
    List list=new ArrayList();
    try {
        Statement stmt=conn.createStatement();
        ResultSet rs=stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM customer");
        while(rs.next()){
            list.add(rs.getString("CNAME"));
            list.add(rs.getString("ADDRESS"));
            list.add(rs.getString("PHONENUMBER"));
        }
        stmt.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace(System.err);
    }
    return list;
}

public void newClient(String name, String address, String phoneNumber) 
throws SQLException{
    PreparedStatement ps = null;
    try {
        createConnection();
        String insert="INSERT INTO CUSTOMER(CNAME,ADDRESS, PHONENUMBER) 
VALUES(?,?,?)";
        ps=conn.prepareStatement(insert);
        ps.setString(1, name);
        ps.setString(2, address);
        ps.setString(3, phoneNumber);
        ps.executeUpdate();
        ps.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace(System.err);
    }
    finally {
        ps.close();
        closeConnection();
    }
}
public void deleteClient(String ID){
    try {
        createConnection();
        String delete="DELETE FROM CUSTOMER WHERE ID=?";
        PreparedStatement ps=conn.prepareStatement(delete);
        ps.setString(1, ID);
        ps.executeUpdate();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace(System.err);
    }
}

}

El index.jsp:

<jsp:useBean id="client" class="database.client" scope="page" />
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    <title>JSP Page</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="lightgrey">
    <%
        String ID=request.getParameter("ID");
        String NAME=request.getParameter("CNAME");
        String ADDRESS=request.getParameter("ADDRESS");
        String PHONENUMBER=request.getParameter("PHONENUMBER");
    %>
    <form method="post" action="">
    <table border="0" align="left">
        <th colspan="2" align="center" style="color: brown">Field</th>
        <tr>
            <td>Name:</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="CNAME" style="background-
color:beige"/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Address?</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="ADDRESS" style="background-
color:beige"/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>PhoneNumber:</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="PHONENUMBER" style="background-
color:beige"/></td>
        </tr>
            <input type="submit" name="OK" onclick="
                <%
               if(NAME!=null && ADDRESS!=null && PHONENUMBER!=null){
                    client.newClient(NAME, ADDRESS, PHONENUMBER);
                }
                %>" value="OK"/>
            <input type="submit" name="Cancel" onclick="
               <%
               //nothing
               %>" value="Cancel"/>
            <input type="submit" name="Delete" onclick="
<%client.deleteCl,ient(ID);%>" value="Delete"/>
    </table>
    <table border="2">
        <th colspan="4" align="center" bgcolor="orange">Clients</th>
        <tr bgcolor="silver" align="center">
            <td>&nbsp;</td>
            <td>Name</td>
            <td>Address</td>
            <td>PhoneNumber</td>
        </tr>
        <%
            List list=client.clientList();
            Iterator it=list.iterator();

            while(it.hasNext()){
                out.print("<tr bgcolor='lightgreen'>");
                out.print("<td>");
                NAME=(String)it.next();
                out.print("<input type='radio' name='ID' value="+NAME+"/>");
                out.print("</td>");
                out.print("<td>");
                out.print(NAME);
                out.print("</td>");
                for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
                    out.print("<td>");
                    out.print(it.next());
                    out.print("</td>");
                }
            out.print("</tr>");

            }
        %>
    </table>
</form>  
</body>
</html>

Si dejo en blanco los campos y hago clic en Aceptar, aparece el siguiente mensaje de error: Causado por: org.apache.derby.client.am.SqlException: No hay conexión real.

Si no hay conexión, ¿cómo puede crear un registro vacío?

Y:

Severe:   java.lang.NullPointerException at: client.java PreparedStatement ps=conn.prepareStatement(delete);

EDITAR El nuevo error: Severo: java.sql.SQLDataException: formato de cadena no válido para INTEGER.

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