1. I my action class, I reference a bean EditorBean editor = EditorBean.findEditorData( username );
2. this bean accesses the data access logic and the bean gets populated by information fetched from the database (see the code below) 3. In the action class, I then wrap editor in a session object: HttpSession session = request.getSession(); editor.setUserrole( request.getParameter( "userrole" ) ); editor.setCategory( request.getParameter( "category" ) ); session.setAttribute( "editor", editor ); 4. In the JSP, how do I get userrole and category from the session object and how to display them in Struts? Here is my EditorBean class: public class EditorBean { private String username; private String userrole; private String category; // UserDAO and MySQLUserDAO are in another package. Must import that package. // should not instantiate an interface because it does not have a constructor static EditorDAO ed = new MySQLEditorDAO(); public EditorBean() {} public EditorBean( String username, String userrole, String category ) { setUsername( username ); setUserrole( userrole ); setCategory( category ); } public String getUsername() { return username; } public void setUsername( String username ) { this.username = username; } public String getUserrole() { return userrole; } public void setUserrole( String userrole ) { this.userrole = userrole; } public String getcategory() { return category; } public void setCategory( String category ) { this.category = category; } public static EditorBean findEditorData( String username ) { return ed.findEditor( username ); } } __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]