Re: populating JSP from

I think the easiest way to explain it would be to take a look at the struts example that comes with the binary. They have a simple application where the first screen is a login. If the user enters a login name, but not a password, the same screen is returned with an error message and with

RE: populating JSP from

Yes, this actually happens by default if the form bean associated with a JSP already has data. So, if you have an ActionForm named myActionForm with a field userName, and userName has a value, then the Struts tag below will render the text input with that value already in it. html:text