Dynamic tags in HTML form

Hi there,

I am trying to create a form in Struts that displays to the user a
multi-select form element whose contents (ie: <option> tags) are pulled from
a SQL database over JDBC.

ie:

	<html:form action="/search" focus="people">
	<select name="people" multiple>
		<option>Joel Baker</option>
		<option>Fred Flinstone</option>
		<option>Foo Bar</option>
	</select>
	</html:form>

but with the contents of the option tags dynamically created.

I have searched the docs and have come across things like options (
http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/doc-1.0.2/struts-html.html#options ) as
well as mumblings about dynamic properties, but none of these appears to
make any sense.

I suppose I could just write a bean that is included in my JSP file to query
the database in its constructor and then to call some function of this bean
to write out all the <option> tags, but this was precisely how I used to do
this sort of thing in Model 1 JSP. How should this problem be approached in
Model 2?

Many thanks for any help,

Joel Baker.


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