jsp:useBean problem

[MalCarne]

I've got a very simple form that posts to a processing jsp page. The processing page amounts to

    <jsp:useBean id="Handler" class="user.getEmployeeFormData" scope="request" >
            <jsp:setProperty  name="Handler" property="*" />
        </jsp:useBean>
        <jsp:forward page="UpdateEmployeeDB" />

The Handler bean has getter and setter methods for the form values of the submitting page. However, unless I specifically hard code a property/value pair, the setProperty method is never hit.
Is there something more that I need to do on the submitting form, other than method="post" action="update.jsp" for the bean to access the form values?

Thanks in advance.

 

[MalCarne]

The real issue in this is that the processing jsp has no awareness of the posted data, despite the post method from the submitting page.
Frankly, I'm at a loss as far as form submission in jsp goes. A post should result in form information being written to the header. A request.getParameter, if I understand it's purpose correctly, should be able to get the parameters of a post or a get. However, in this case it is not.

I realize that I have a lot to learn about this language in general, but I've had a project shoved upon me that is requiring me to get this done by any means possible, knowledge of the language be damned. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

[MalCarne]

If nothing else, can someone suggest another method?

 

[lowbk]

another possibility is

in your form, pass the data to a servlet, then invoke the bean from the servlet.