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A form's job is data input. It should not be used for data output unless some of that data is used as input too (this does not mean dropdowns, etc). Output data should be stuffed into the request by using request.setAttribute. You can then access the data in the jsp using the c taglib. Any data that is required for more than one screen, e.g. dropdown data that doesn't change, etc, can be stored in the session.