Hi ! I am trying to use a bean in a JSP page using the beanName attribute of the <jsp:useBean> tag, giving IT a request-time attribute expression, with a syntax like: <jsp:useBean id="mybean" scope="session" beanName=<%= session.getValue("billtoname") %> type="a.b.MyBean"/> And the servlet dispatching to this JSP page has the following line to set the attribute: HttpSession session; session.putValue("billtoname","a.b.MyBean"); And this does not work. I have tried very many variant of the above, to no avail. btw, if I repace the request-time attribute expression by a String, like : beanName="a.b.MyBean" everything works just fine. What did I miss ? Thanks, Martin. Martin Leboeuf [EMAIL PROTECTED] =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". FAQs on JSP can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html