For an array you can do this for a property "type[index]". I don't know if this has been suggested before, but what if you could also do this for a Hashmap. I was thinking something like form{name}. I'm sure there are lots of other uses, but it could let you make a bean/form class that just used a Hashmap for rapid prototyping. This also might be a simple/temporary solution for the beans that don't need setters and getters. public Hashmap getForm(); <html:text property="form{firstName}" size="30" maxlength="30"/> <html:text property="form{lastName}" size="30" maxlength="30"/> <html:text property="form{address}" size="30" maxlength="30"/> David __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/