Does Tomcat, by default, serialize a session (or anything else)?
I'm getting a NotSerializableException when attempting to perform a HttpServletRequest.forward() from inside a servlet. The NotSerializableException refers to a java bean that is called from the JSP page that is the object of the forward(). The <jsp:useBean ... > call specifies the bean's scope as "request".
The class in question is not serializable, but it should not be (at least not as far a my code is concerned). This servlet is working properly with other JSP pages and other beans that are not serializable. Of course, I could declare it serializable but it really shouldn't ever be serialized and I'd like to understand what's going on. I haven't found anything relevant in the servlet spec.
I'm currently running Tomcat/5.0.19 as a standalone server. For what it's worth, the error message (from the logfile) is below.*
