1. Am not able to get map-backed action forms working. Using Struts 1.1. Followed the guidelines as described in the docs. Pored over the mailing list archive. Any ideas ?
2. I'm getting back into Struts development after a year-long haitus. Something that always frustrated me about Struts still does not seem to have an adequate solution, at least as far as I can tell from some initial searches here and elsewhere. My application uses forms containing <html:select> tags with <html:options> populated from database queries. My validations are defined in validation.xml. When a form fails validation, input is returned to the form's .jsp page. I really want to be able to place beans containing the elements that populate <html:options> into the request as opposed to the session, because users may have several browser windows open that are all part of the same session. But any beans in the request are gone (of course) once the form fails validation. Has anyone found an elegant solution to this?