I have a java servlet which fills a bean. Then, it forwards to a JSP page. Is there anyway I can get the contents of the bean now that the control is on the JSP page? If I create an instance of the bean on the JSP page, it resets the values that were stored in the bean on the servlet page. How can I get around this?

In your servlet you can store the data (bean) that the jsp pages will use in the following way:
request.setAttribute("myData",Data1);

And then in the JSP, you would access the value by:
Data1 data1 = (Data1)request.getAttribute("myData);

For more complex situations, you can store the bean in various scopes lieke ServletContext, HttpSession etc.

if the populated bean is added to request, session..scope
request.setAttribute("MyBean", Object);
session.setAttribute("MyBean", Object);

inside your jsp

<jsp:useBean ...scope="request/session..." id="MyBean" ..>

"id" should match with the attribute name.
the behaviour of usebean is, it first checks for the bean in the scope specified. If it could not be found then creates a new instance of the bean.

Hope this would help you

Cheers mate,
Chandra