Hi, I'm trying to move an application to Tomcat from another application server and one of my JSP pages won't compile. I get the following error (I replaced the site specific information with ...): ######################### Error: 500 Location: /.../...jsp Internal Servlet Error: org.apache.jasper.compiler.CompileException: E:\...\...\...jsp(44,9) useBean: Duplicate bean name: X at org.apache.jasper.compiler.BeanGenerator.checkSyntax(BeanGenerator.java:125) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.BeanGenerator.generate(BeanGenerator.java:95) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspParseEventListener$GeneratorWrapper.generate(J spParseEventListener.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspParseEventListener.generateAll(JspParseEventLi stener.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspParseEventListener.generateHeader(JspParseEven tListener.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspParseEventListener.endPageProcessing(JspParseE ventListener.java:173) at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.doLoadJSP(JspServlet.java:462) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperLoader12.loadJSP(JasperLoader12.java:146) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.loadJSP(JspServlet.java:433) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(JspSe rvlet.java:152) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.ja va:164) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:318) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java, Compiled Code) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:404) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:286) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:79 7) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743) at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC onnectionHandler.java:210) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java, Compiled Code) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java, Compiled Code) ######################### The code looks something like this: <% if (...Java code...) { while (...Java code...) { ...Java code... %> <jsp:useBean id="X".../> <% ...Java code... } ...Java code... } %> <% if (...Java code...) { while (...Java code...) { ...Java code... %> <jsp:useBean id="X".../> <% ...Java code... } ...Java code... } %> This compiles and works in the other application server that I'm using, but Jasper tells me that the Bean is incorrectly being duplicated. I think that this should be ok because the variable declarations in the Java source file that will be produced will be in different blocks. However, from what I can tell, Jasper might be checking the useBean tags first and giving an error before creating the Java source file. Again, it does work in the other application server. If anyone has any insight into this, or if this is a bug, I would appreciate any comments. Thank you for any help. Jacob Shukert [EMAIL PROTECTED] (703) 341-2751, VNET 235-2751 Source Systems Development MCI WorldCom