displaying stringbuffer not working, please help

I have the following code in the jsp file,

s1 is a StringBuffer containing multiple lines of text.

<TEXTAREA NAME="DESCRIPTION" ROWS=8 COLS=100 value =

<%

out.println(s1);

System.out.println("\nJust Printed line(s)\n" + s1);

%>

>

</TEXTAREA>

Output from "just printed lines .. is fine.

But, out.println(s1) does not print anything in the textarea.

thanks

babu

[471 byte] By [sasbab1] at [2007-9-26 2:52:00]