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Asked: 2026-06-11T11:30:00+00:00

This is probably a very simple error somewhere. Please help. I have a home.jsp

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This is probably a very simple error somewhere. Please help.
I have a home.jsp page with two <form:form> tags:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<%@ taglib uri="/META-INF/c.tld" prefix="c"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/META-INF/fmt.tld" prefix="fmt"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/META-INF/spring-form.tld" prefix="form"%>

<html>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

<head>
    <title>Home Page</title>
</head>

<body>

<div>
    <form:form name="loginForm" modelAttribute="loginUser" action="login" method="post">

        <c:if test="${loginMsg != null}"><c:out value="${loginMsg}"></c:out></c:if>
        <br/>

        Email: <form:input name="loginEmail" id="loginEmail" value=""   path="email"/>
        <form:errors path="email" cssClass="error" />
        <br/>

        password: <form:password name="loginPassword" Id="loginPassword" value="" path="password" />
        <form:errors path="password" />
        <br/>

        <input type="submit" id="id_login" value="Login">

    </form:form>
</div>

<div>
    <form:form name="SignUpForm" modelAttribute="signUpUser" action="signup" method="post">

        <c:if test="${signupMsg != null}"><c:out value="${signupMsg}"></c:out></c:if>   
        <br/>

        Full Name: <form:input name="name" id="name" value=""   path="name"/>
        <form:errors path="name" cssClass="error" />
        <br/>

        Email: <form:input name="signupEmail" id="signupEmail" value="" path="email"/>
        <form:errors path="email" cssClass="error" />
        <br/>

        password: <form:password name="signUpPassword" Id="signUpPassword" value="" path="password" />
        <form:errors path="password" />
        <br/>

        <input type="submit" id="id_signUp" value="Sign Up">

    </form:form>
</div>

</body>

</html>

Each form is handled by a different controller. The problem is, when I fill (just) one of the forms and click the submit button, both the ModelAttributes are getting populated with the same value

There’s nothing special to my controllers:

@RequestMapping("/login")
public String login(@ModelAttribute("loginUser") User user,
        BindingResult result, @ModelAttribute("signUpUser") User signUpUser,
        BindingResult signUpResult, ModelMap model, HttpServletRequest request,
        HttpServletResponse response) {

    // Here, both user and signUpUser have the same value (WHY?)
    // But I dint fill the sign up form at all

    loginFormValidator.validate(user, result);

    if(Errors in `result`)
        return "forward:/home";

    // Authentication Logic
    request.getSession().setAttribute("s_user_obj", some_variable);
    return "forward:/home";

}

UPDATE:

Here’s the HTMLs generated.
BEFORE login action:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

<head>
    <title>Welcome to m0m0</title>
</head>

<body>

<div>
    <form id="loginUser" name="loginForm" action="login" method="post">

        <br/>                           
        Email: <input id="loginEmail" name="email" name="loginEmail" type="text" value=""/>

        <br/>
        password: <input id="password" name="password" name="loginPassword" Id="loginPassword" type="password" value=""/>

        <br/>
        <input type="submit" id="id_login" value="Login">

    </form>
</div>

<div>
    <form id="signUpUser" name="SignUpForm" action="signup" method="post">

        <br/>
        Full Name: <input id="name" name="name" name="name" type="text" value=""/>

        <br/>                   
        Email: <input id="signupEmail" name="email" name="signupEmail" type="text" value=""/>

        <br/>
        password: <input id="password" name="password" name="signUpPassword" Id="signUpPassword" type="password" value=""/>

        <br/>
        <input type="submit" id="id_signUp" value="Sign Up">

    </form>
</div>

</body>

</html>

AFTER login action:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

<head>
    <title>Welcome to m0m0</title>
</head>

<body>

<div>
    <form id="loginUser" name="loginForm" action="login" method="post">

        <br/>                           
        Email: <input id="loginEmail" name="email" name="loginEmail" type="text" value="a@b.com"/>

        <br/>
        password: <input id="password" name="password" name="loginPassword" Id="loginPassword" type="password" value=""/>

        <br/>
        <input type="submit" id="id_login" value="Login">

    </form>
</div>

<div>
    <form id="signUpUser" name="SignUpForm" action="signup" method="post">

        <br/>
        Full Name: <input id="name" name="name" name="name" type="text" value=""/>

        <br/>                   
        Email: <input id="signupEmail" name="email" name="signupEmail" type="text" value="a@b.com"/>

        <br/>
        password: <input id="password" name="password" name="signUpPassword" Id="signUpPassword" type="password" value=""/>

        <br/>
        <input type="submit" id="id_signUp" value="Sign Up">

    </form>
</div>

</body>

</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    spring binds the parameters to both models, because it doesn’t consider the model name for binding (and btw. there’s no information about the model name in the request)

    Each form is handled by a different controller.

    but this method handles both?

    @RequestMapping("/login")
public String login(@ModelAttribute("loginUser") User user,
    BindingResult result, @ModelAttribute("signUpUser") User signUpUser,
    BindingResult signUpResult, ModelMap model, HttpServletRequest request,
    HttpServletResponse response) {

// Here, both user and signUpUser have the same value (WHY?)
// But I dint fill the sign up form at all

loginFormValidator.validate(user, result);

if(Errors in `result`)
    return "forward:/home";

// Authentication Logic
request.getSession().setAttribute("s_user_obj", some_variable);
return "forward:/home";

    }

    EDIT:

    public class Form {
    private User loginUser;
    private User signupUser;
    .....
}

    then you can do the following

    <form:input path="loginUser.name" />

    and

    <form:input path="signupUser.name" />

    in this case you’ll only have 1 model attribute, not 2

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