hi sebastian, If you have configured action to use redirect ( which is normal case ), ur request attributes will be lost. Try putting that bean seesion scope.
sachin xoriant, mumbai PS : also make sure, how does struts take us back to input page ?( using forward or redirect i guees its redirect) -----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Ho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:59 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: bean missing after validation hi i have the following codes in my JSP : <input type="hidden" name="userID" value="<bean:write name="user" property="userID" scope="request"/>"/> which converts into <input type="hidden" name="userID" value="1"/>. If validation is used and there are errors, the input page is displayed. Now the above value became : <input type="hidden" name="userID" value=""/> The valus is missing.. Can anyone explain why this is happening and how to resolve it? sebastian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]