Can't retrieve bean value from jsp!

Question

Here's the chain of events for my web app:
JSP form (get info from user) -> forwarding jsp (uses bean to save info submitted to form)-> servlet (retrieves info from DB) -> JSP (presents DB info to user by populating values in text fields from original form)
Right now, I can access all the values submitted to the first JSP from my servlet. However, after my servlet retrieves the info from a db and stores it in a bean and forwards the request (using requestdispatcher) to the 2nd JSP, I can't get the values from the bean from the 2nd jsp. I was able to use the bean to store the information submitted to the original JSP, however.
Here's some relevant code:
FROM FORWARDING JSP (which saves user-submitted info in bean)
<jsp:useBean id="fxFormBean" class="fxmatcher.FxFormBean" scope="request"/>
<jsp:setProperty name="fxFormBean" property="*" />
<jsp:forward page="/FxMatcher" />
FROM LAST JSP (which should populate form fields)
header stuff:
<jsp:useBean id="fxFormBean" class="fxmatcher.FxFormBean" scope="session"/>
info retrieval:
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="fx_key" value="<%= fxFormBean.getFx_key() %>">
I wrote this JSP based on the example given here: http://www.jsptut.com/Editing.jsp, but I'm not getting the value from the bean. The result JSP just has value="".
I'm pretty sure that my servlet is saving the info to bean correctly, but here's the code anyways:
//retrieves info from DB
FxFormBean fx = (FxFormBean) request.getAttribute("fxFormBean");
fx.setFx_key (traderKey);
fx.setAa_block(agent_block);
fx.setAddition_to (additional_to);
log("trader key: [" + fx.getFx_key() + "]"); //debugging code
My debugging code did print out the correct info, so I don't think there's anything wrong with the bean or the servlet.
I would appreciate any help. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

The first JSP puts the bean in the request, the servlet retrieves the bean from the request and updates it but in the second JSP you set the scope to session:
<jsp:useBean id="fxFormBean" class="fxmatcher.FxFormBean" scope="session"/>
So the second JSP is looking in the wrong place for your bean. Change the scope in the second JSP to request:
<jsp:useBean id="fxFormBean" class="fxmatcher.FxFormBean" scope="request"/>