@Merrill Higginson
I went through the FAQ. But the case explained there is where there are two actions, one to display and one to process. Hence, after form validation fails, the display action is called to repopulate the bean(by fetching from database) and then the
jsp is displayed.
I have a scenario like this, where there is a user registration form with around 10 fields for user input. I want to retain these values, even after a server-side validation failure. Note that there is no specific action before displaying the form.