Absolutely. When you forward from one
servlet to another (remember that JSPs are just servlets in drag) you remain within the context of the same request. That means that all request context elements, including both request parameters and attributes, are available within the forwarded page.
Therefore, beans that have been placed into the request scope are available across all forwarded pages.
This is actually a very important concept for the MVC/Model 2 architecture, as well as useful
patterns like Front Controller.
Note, that this is
not the case when a redirect is performed. In that case, the browser issues a new request, so context from the original request is no longer available.
hth,
bear