Dear friend(s), Our project is a portal site, where the pages are in JSP and server used for testing is Tomcat 3.00. JDK1.2.2 is used for compilation of JSP (i.e., tools.jar and javac.exe). The first (default) page is the "New Cars" page in which we're trying to initialise the relevant parameters.,i.e. "CAR" and "APD00_01", within the page. The code for session variable is: <% HttpSession ses = null; ses = request.getSession(true); if (ses==null) { %> <jsp:forward page="/jsp/won/APD00_01.jsp" /> <% } else { ses.putValue("vehicle_code","CAR"); ses.putValue("page_id","APD00_01"); } String vehicle = (String) ses.getValue("vehicle_code"); String pageID = (String) ses.getValue("page_id"); %> and for each of the top, left, right bottom parts of the page (below is given for top only): <jsp:include page="top.jsp" flush="true" /> <jsp:params> <jsp:param name="vehicle_code" value="CAR" /> <jsp:param name="page_id" value="APD00_01" /> </jsp:params> </jsp:include> However, things are not working. On adding "vehicle_code=CAR&page_id=APD00_01" in the URL, the desired result is obtained. Here again, the history has to be cleared from time to time or else, old cache seems to be accessed, at the whims of heaven-knows-what! Incidentally, the first page contains static html, although beans and database access are used elsewhere. As a deadline is there, you can imagine the tremendous pressure that we're under and any help would be appreciated. Regards, Arnab =========================================================================== 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