Bean confusion - questions - beginner

Question

jsp A
<jsp:useBean id="searchHeaders" scope="session" class="database.Tool"/>
<p><c:out value="${searchHeaders.searchHeaderMap}"/> // This shows my bean info
<p><a href="/<c:out value="${param.newID}"/>/searchTooling.jsp?newID=<c:out value="${param.newID}"/>">Tool Lookup </a>Quick Background
When a user clicks on the above link they are taken to a form with two input fields where they can search by an asset number or a serial number. However, depending on what site they are on - the wording might be different - asset number might be called quality number or something else.
<jsp:useBean id="searchHeaders" scope="session" class="database.Tool"/> 
<c:forEach var="i" items="${searchHeaders.searchHeaderMap}" varStatus="status">
          <c:forEach var="h" items="${i.key}" varStatus="status">
              <c:choose>
              <c:when test='${(i.key) <= "2"}'>
                  <c:forEach var="d" items="${i.value}" varStatus="status">
                  <td><c:out value="${d}"/><INPUT TYPE='text' NAME='<c:out value="${d}"/>' SIZE='30'></td> 
               </c:forEach>     
              </c:when>
              </c:choose>
          </c:forEach>
          </c:forEach>My problem is that jsp A has the bean information showing but once I click on a link the bean information doesnt show until I submit the form on jsp B( which forwards back to jsp B through servlet). I thought that once I called the bean and put it in a session scope I would be able to use it/call it until I expired the session...
How can I share a bean between two jsp's without using a form?

Answer 1

First of all - sorry if my terms dont make sense - still new and learning. I dont understand what you are asking me..
Here is the servlet that is calling/creating the bean
public class tooling_index extends HttpServlet {
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
        DataFactory dbf = DataFactory.getDataFactory(DataFactory.sybase);
        ToolSearchInformation searchInfo = dbf.getToolSearchInformation();
        Tool searchHeaders = searchInfo.findSearchTableHeaders(newID);
        request.setAttribute("searchHeaders", searchHeaders);
        RequestDispatcher dispatcher = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/index.jsp?newID="+ newID);
        dispatcher.forward(request, response);
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
        doGet(request, response);
}This forwards to my jsp A. Is this what you are asking ?