How to do this? Please help

[yacanna]

In my index.jsp page(The portal page of my site), I like to have a drop down list box listing all the product categories so that the use can choose one category and search.

So in my javabean, let us call DataManagerBean, I have function public Collection getProductCategories(), which retrieving the categories from database table.

Now in my index.jsp page; I have something like
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<html:form action="/SeachProducts.do">
<html:select property="prodCategory" size="1" >
<htmlption value="0"> Select Category</htmlption>
<htmlptions> ??? ( I like to list all the products categories by calling getProductCategories()???
</html:select>
<html:submit value="Submit"/>
</html:form>
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I am confused because this is index page, I don't have any formbean associated with this. How can I accomplish this??? Any help would be great apprecated!!!

 

[Einstein47]

Why can't you have a FormBean associated to your index.jsp? That way the Form would have the logic to populate your options list with ValueObjects that would give you the id and the text to display.

Einstein47
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