Selected value for JSP drop down using JSTL

Question

I have SortedMap in Servlet to populate drop down values in JSP and I have the following code

    SortedMap dept = findDepartment();
           


        

Answer 1

I think above examples are correct. but you dont' really need to set

request.setAttribute("selectedDept", selectedDept);

you can reuse that info from JSTL, just do something like this..

<%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>

    


    
    
    

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