Also, if the user leaves the <html:text> field for BigDecimal as blank, I
get an exception (string->BigDecimal conversion exception). So, is the solution to this is to make all formbean properties to be "String" type?
you coud do something like BigDecimal bigDecimalProperty; public setBigDecimalProperty(String value) { try { bigDecimalProperty = new BigDecimal(value); }catch(Exception e) { bigDecimalProperty = new BigDecimal(somedefaultval); } } -- Puneet