I had similar problem
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No bean specified
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils.getPropertyDescriptor(PropertyUtils.java:837)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils.setProperty(BeanUtils.java:934)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils.populate(BeanUtils.java:808)
at org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.populate(RequestUtils.java:495)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processPopulate(RequestProcessor.java:798)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:205)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1164)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:415)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
reason was as follows
Struts config for form was
<form-bean name="itemForm" type="org.apache.struts.validator.DynaValidatorForm">
<form-property name="art" type="com.tigerfive.struts.ArtForStruts" />
</form-bean>
But ArtForStruts class had no default constructor.