Well, I got the solution solved with the help of the team. The problem was that the bean class was being loaded from the servlet classpath instead of weblogic's classpath. It seems as thought <jsp:forward > implicitly uses a different classloader to load the JavaBean causing the dreaded ClassCastException. For more info check out the weblogic docs under "HTTP Servlets". Hope this helps someone, Abraham Kang =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". FAQs on JSP can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html