This could be off-base, but I think you'll have better results if you change the case of your form-bean variable name from "BillingIDForm" to "billingIDForm". I think it may be using a static class BillingIDForm and not creating an instance of the class. Change all references on the JSP page to "billingIDForm" and the <form-bean name="billingIDForm" ...
I know I had a similar problem a while back and it seemed that making that change fixed it. Robert Nocera New England Open Solutions www.neosllc.com "You supply the vision, we'll do the rest." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 6:02 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: ActionForm scoping problems? I have an action as such: --- <action path="/enterBillingEdit" type="express.BillingIDActionForm" name="BillingIDForm" .... Rest omitted to save space --- and the form definition of: <form-bean name="BillingIDForm" type="express.BillingIDForm" scope ="request"/> And I have an entry point JSP which invokes actions and such.... I have a post My BillingIDActionForm action simply loads data into the BillingIDForm and saves an attribute in it. The BillingIDActionForm::perform() then calls return (mapping.findForward("success")); Where success maps to: <forward name="success" path="/BillIDForm.jsp"/> The "submit" for BillIDForm.jsp is <html:form action ="/handleBillingIDSubmit.do"> where handleBillingIDSubmit maps to: <action path="/handleBillingIDSubmit" type="express.BillingIDFormSubmitAction" name="BillingIDForm" scope="request" --- In the perform method for: BillingIDFormSubmitAction, public ActionForward perform(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, etc..) when I retrieve the variable form and cast it to: BillingIDForm, the value I set in the previous action is completely gone. In this case, it's back to null which tells me that a "new" instance of the BillingIDForm was created in-between my last action this action..... I thought the whole purpose of "request scope" was to retain the same instance of a form or bean all the way thru from the entry request to the end of the request.... It does not appear to be the case... Is there any other decent examples or explanations on when form variables descope themselves between requests? If I go and change all of my "scope" attributes in the struts.config.xml to "session", my application works fine. Trouble is that I want it to work with "request" scope. I think I am definitely missing a key point here somewhere! I'm sorry, but I'm just not getting it :-) thanks, Theron -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
