Hubert Rabago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/06/2005 02:15:20 PM: > I would think so. I'm not as familiar with the internals of BeanUtils > as I'd like to be, but since your form is in request scope, that means > it'll create a new instance upon submission. From that, it'll call > getDependent(). If that returns null, I'm not sure what BeanUtils > would do. I'd bet it'd just throw an error, and if I had time I'd > like to see if I can win that bet.
This is exactly what I have coded... public DependentVO getDependent() { if (dependent == null) { dependent = new DependentVO(); } return dependent; } It works like a charm... gotta run a demo in 8 minutes... Damn I hate those close deadlines ! - Glenn