We are just starting to use Struts; I apologize if this question stems from not reading all the docs. I am trying to setup a jsp (index.jsp) with a <html:form> as shown below: <html:form action="showView.bws" focus="viewName"> The corresponding action mapping is: <form-bean name="showViewForm" type="com.vitria.controller.ShowViewForm"/> <action path="/showView" type="com.vitria.controller.ShowViewAction" name="showViewForm" scope="session" validate="true" input="/index.jsp"> <forward name="success" path="/showView.jsp"/> </action> Loading index.jsp gives the following error: javax.servlet.ServletException: Exception creating bean of class com.vitria.controller.ShowViewForm: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.vitria.controller.ShowViewForm If I change <html:form> to <form>, the ActionServlet is able to instantiate com.vitria.controller.ShowViewForm, populate it and pass it on to com.vitria.controller.ShowViewAction. Changing the scope to 'request' did not make a difference. Any suggestions? -- Thanks in advance Jacob