As WebWork 2.2 has embraced Spring I've been modifying everything to do what I want it to do. Its amazing to me that with all the wonderful things Spring has it doesn't support Session Scope Beans. The solution is to use a thread local to propagate the session deeper into the app. Makes me wonder if Ruby has thread local variables. Here is someone who has taken the idea and developed a good implementation. JA-SIG I'll post a webworkified version later.