class cast exception?

when running the following code i recieve the following error. i cant figure out why? any sugestions would be brillient!

<jsp:useBean id="skilltype" class="com.Database.SkillType" scope="page">

</jsp:useBean>

the error:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Exception in JSP: /skills.jsp:136

133: </tr>

134: <tr>

135: <td>

136: <jsp:useBean id="skilltype" class="com.Database.SkillType" scope="page">

137:</jsp:useBean>

138:

139:<select name="SkillType">

Stacktrace:

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:506)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:395)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)

javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

root cause

java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String

org.apache.jsp.skills_jsp._jspx_meth_c_forEach_0(skills_jsp.java:287)

org.apache.jsp.skills_jsp._jspService(skills_jsp.java:189)

org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)

javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:334)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)

org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)

javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

[1846 byte] By [h1400046a] at [2007-11-26 15:39:09]
# 1
figured it out seems you cant have a jstl bean and a jstl var named the same
h1400046a at 2007-7-8 21:57:28 > top of Java-index,Enterprise & Remote Computing,Web Tier APIs...