Beans in Request and Validation Question

I have a question about using request scoped beans and validation with an ActionForm. Here is a example: In a certain action, I go and create a Collection of objects for a select list. I put the Collection into the request, and forward to a JSP page, and I show the list. From the JSP page, the

Re: Beans in Request and Validation Question

The way I dealt with this was to point my input attribute to a setup Action which would put the needed collection into request scope for me. But that's just one approach. Another is to handle validation yourself (which really is very easy). This is the approach recommended by