I have commented out the following "if" statement too in my Action class :
if (action == null) { return (mapping.findForward("techbooks")); } But I still get : org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Cannot find bean Books in scope request at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:248) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) ------- ------- root cause javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot find bean Books in scope request at org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:530) at org.apache.jsp.Books_jsp._jspService(Books_jsp.java:413) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:137) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:204) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)