>From what I understand fields on my form are supposed to be loaded into my bean automatically when my bean is instantiated, if they have the same names. I realize that I can use 'setProperty' to load them explicitly. My test code loaded the values into the bean automatically just once. I can't seem to get it to do it again. Here are snipets of both the HTML and the JSP: ... <td colspan="2">Last Name:</td> <td> <input LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="TEXT" VALUE="" SIZE="36" NAME=lastName> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">First Name:</td> <td> <input LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="TEXT" VALUE="" SIZE="21" NAME=firstName> </td> ... and the JSP: <html> <FORM TYPE=POST ACTION=customerResult2.jsp> <body bgcolor="green"> <%@ page info="JSP proof of concept page #1" %> <%! String firstName; %> <%! String lastName; %> <%! java.util.Vector phoneNumbers; %> <jsp:useBean id="contactSummary" scope="session" class="test.ContactSummary" /> <%-- Commented out <jsp:setProperty name="contactSummary" property="firstName" param="firstName" /> <jsp:setProperty name="contactSummary" property="lastName" param="lastName" /> --%> <br> ... Things work great with the above section uncommented. BTW, the one time it did work the way it's supposed to my bean scope was set to 'application'. Tia, Chris =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".