I have a bean in application scope and I want to use one of its collection property(responseIndicatorList) in a drop-down but I keep getting an error: "No getter method for property responseIndicatorList of bean common_lists" This is how I have in my jsp: <jsp:useBean id="common_lists" scope="application" type="com.motorola.mms.msqc.beans.CommonDropDownListBean"/> <bean:define id="responseIndicatorMap" name="common_lists" property="responseIndicatorList" scope="application"/> <html:options collection="responseIndicatorMap" labelProperty="value" property="key"/> -Nimmi