Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hey guys,
Im having a bit of trouble with something I thaught was quite simple. I am basically getting a null value from a form text field in struts and I have no IDEA why.. So all im basically trying to do is attempt to get a text field value, but its not even going in my form bean (when print a flag there i get null)...its confusing me because Ive checked it countless times and Ive done it copy-book!. Any help is more than appreciated:

1) This is my simple search JSP (with the form) search.jsp

<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic" %>
<!-- 
    Action property: our reference to the ActionMapping in StrutsConfig 
    Action mapping: /SearchSubmit
    From here two objects called: ActionForm and Action.
-->
<html:errors/>
<html:form action="/SearchSubmit" focus="keywords">
<p class="mainbody">
    Search:<br>
    <html:text property="keywords" size="7" styleClass="mainsidebar" /><br>
    <html:submit />
</p>
</html:form>

2) Here is my form bean: SearchForm.java

package inStock.struts.actions;
import org.apache.struts.action.*;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
public class SearchForm extends ActionForm {  
    private String keywords; 
    /** Get keywords form field */
    public String getKeywords() {
            return (this.keywords);
    } 
    /** Set keywords form field */
    void setKeywords(String keywords) {
        this.keywords = keywords;
    }
    /** Our validate */
    public ActionErrors validate(ActionMapping mapping, HttpServletRequest request){
        System.out.println("FLAG: in SearchForm: validate(), Keywords is: " + keywords); //THIS ALWAYS PRINTS NULL! :(
        ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
        if((keywords == null)|| (keywords.length() < 1)){
            errors.add ("keywords", new ActionError("SearchForm.keywords.required"));
        }        
        return errors;
    }
}

3) My action class: SearchAction.java (but it doesnt even get there)

(doesnt even get here)

4) Finally the code in my struts config

<struts-config>
...
    <form-beans>
         <form-bean name="searchForm" type="inStock.struts.actions.SearchForm" />
    </form-beans>
...
    <global-forwards>
        <forward name="searchsucess" path="/pages/Search.jsp" />
    </global-forwards>
....
    <action-mappings>
        <action path="/SearchSubmit" type="inStock.struts.actions.SearchAction" name="searchForm" scope="request" validate="true" input="/pages/includes/aux_includes/search.jsp" />
    </action-mappings>
...
</struts-config>

Again I have no idea why, but it always gets NULL in the SearchForm.java... please help this is getting quite annoying.. and im sure its something stupid! Thanks!