Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

HI
I have a text area in jsp which i am trying to populate with a ActionForm . the problem is when i enter text and submit jsp to action class, i am able to read values from actionForm class in action class, however when i forward request back to same jsp i am not seeing the same value in text area. other input text boxes in the jsp are working fine, problem is with the textarea.

here is my code, since ActionForm is not populating the data in textarea i am trying to populate with request parameter which i am settig in action class.
<% String myNotes = (String)request.getAttribute("notes");
if(myNotes == null)
myNotes ="";
%>

<html:textarea cols="100" rows="5" value="<%=myNotes%>" property="notes"></html:textarea>

any idea why actionfom is not working with textarea in both ways ?

thank you