form is always null in action

[Stephane Grenier]

Hello all.

I can't seem to figure this one out. My form object in my action class is always null. 
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are my settings of importance:

Struts-config.xml:

<form-beans>
    <form-bean name="ShoppingCartForm"      
type="com.rana.release.forms.ShoppingCartForm" />
</form-beans>

<action-mappings>
 <action path="/ShoppingCartAction"
  type="com.rana.release.actions.ShoppingCartAction"
  name="shoppingCart"
  scope="session">
  <forward name="success" path="/purchase.jsp"/>
  <forward name="failure" path="/badTest.jsp"/>
 </action>
</action-mappings>

what I do to get to this page is call the following from a jsp this way:

<html:link page="/ShoppingCartAction.do" >shopping cart</html:link>

And the purchase.jsp contains the following:

   <html:form action="ShoppingCartAction" name="ShoppingCartForm" 
type="com.rana.release.forms.ShoppingCartForm" scope="session">
     <html:text property="quantity" /><br>
     <html:submit>Checkout</html:submit>
   </html:form>

For my action, the code is simply:
ShoppingCartForm shoppingCartForm = (ShoppingCartForm)form;

System.out.println(form);

And this results always in a null object. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Stephane