How the hell does a person share session data between JSP page and a Servle

1. How the hell does one share session data between a servlet and a JSP page without using a bean but rather using a normal string variable.

2. When using session scope to access a bean the application complains about not finding the bean on the specified scope, however when I use an application scope the save the same bean, the application does find it.

Please help!!!!!!!

SERVLET:

HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);

ServletContext servletContext = session.getServletContext();

customerID = result.getString("CustomerID");

userName = result.getString("UserName");

session.setAttribute("UserName",userName);

session.setAttribute("CustomerID",customerID);

System.out.println("Customer UserName = " + session.getAttribute("UserName"));

response.sendRedirect("/economics/subscriptions/default.jsp");

JSP PAGE:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<jsp:root xmlns:jsp=http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page mlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" xmlns:sql="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql" version="2.0">

<jsp:directive.page isThreadSafe="true" session="true" contentType="text/xml"/><jsp:output omit-xml-declaration="false"/><jsp:scriptlet>response.addHeader("x-xslt-nocache", "true");</jsp:scriptlet><pml>

<page type="web" search="y">

<pageName>Commercial Banking</pageName>

<jsp:directive.include file="/economics/header.inc"/>

<jsp:directive.include file="/login.inc"/>

<jsp:directive.include file="/economics/leftMenu.inc"/>

<!--<jsp:useBean id="UserName" type="java.lang.String" scope="session" />-->

<content>

<searchSum>Commercial - Main Content</searchSum>

Value = <c:out value="${request.session.getAttribute(&quot;UserName&quot;)}"/>

</content>

<jsp:directive.include file="/economics/rightNav.inc"/>

<jsp:directive.include file="/footer.inc"/>

</page></pml></jsp:root>

[2123 byte] By [Harry_O_Za] at [2007-10-3 2:44:01]