dennis yarborough

what version of struts are you using? I'm using struts on WAS 4.0 (wsad) and needed to use struts 1.1(beta3) to get validation working properly.

Try using <logic:notEmpty>. This tag will evaluate if the requested variable is neither null, nor an empty string, nor an empty java.util.Collection.

It's my understanding that with Struts 1.1 the ValidatorPlugIn replaces the ValidatorServlet. I see in your web.xml your initializing the servlet. In 1.1 the plugin initializes the resources, versus the servlet initializing them.

did you set validate="true" in your ActionMapping?