> this resulted in the ClassCastException i described earlier, despite > reloading the webapp and even restarting tomcat.
Did you also close the browser window you were using to test? IIRC, Tomcat serializes session data when you shut it down. Just a guess, but I think you had a session sitting around with the "old" form bean, and since the name was the same, it got used. If you had changed the name from the beginning (myForm2) you likely never would have seen this. -- Wendy Smoak Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. Arizona State University, PA, IRM