Data sharing with Beans or Attributes?

[Mark Howard]

I wrote a web application whose Servlets would retrieve database data and store them as attributes in Session scope. The JSP pages would then simply retrieve the appropriate session variables and use the data to render the browser pages.
The MVC design pattern advocates JavaBean objects as a way of sharing data between Servlets and JSP pages. My question is whether the one method (Attributes) is better than the other (Beans), whether its just a design/reusability issue, or whether there are any distinct advantages of the one over the other
Any input much appreciated.

[Bear Bibeault]

The MVC pattern "says" nothing to preclude the use of attributes. However, I'd rethink plunking them onto the session in favor of the putting them onto the request and then forwarding the request to the JSP page.
hth,
bear