Which is the way to forward that preserves the request object? Is it redirect="true" or redirect="false".
I'm having trouble setting a request variable on display of an edit screen....that is available for the process form action when I hit the form submit. I'm trying to use the hibernate <timestamp...> feature. Previously, in my processing of an edit forum...I just requeried the old record from the database, and copied the form variable onto it, then persisted back to the database. However....now I want to query the record when I first display the form...saving my record object (actually a java DTO representing a record in my table) in the request scope. Then when I hit submit, I want to retrieve that object. Right now I'm getting nulls...even on a test variable...and I've tried both ways. Here's code in my action class that displays the values for edit in an html form: request.setAttribute("test","test value"); And here's the code I have in my action class that is supposed to process the recorde (saving it to the database) String test = (String) request.getAttribute("test"); log.info("the value of test is: " + test); I'm getting a null value exception. Lee --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]