retaining the values in struts

[onlymullapudi]

Hi,

I am doing a pop-up window, for editing the information. To show the information allready available, i am using textboxs and select boxes.

I am writing code like this

<bean:define id="prefix" name="editDdDetails" property="prefixDd" type="java.lang.String"/>
<html:text name="InsNativeForm" property="prefixDD" value="<%= prefix %>" size="8" maxlength="6" styleClass="uppercase" />

I specified the value to be shown in the value attribute of the <Html:text> tag..

But the problem is after the user edited the data in the pop-up, and when he submits it, i am using the validator framework to validate the data(like checking for required fields),if there is any error i am showing the pop-up again, but the data in the text box is going back to what we kept in the value attribute, i want to show the data modified by the user, not the old data.

I now that the problem is with value attribute, but is there any other way to hold the data..

thanks for ur time and help