Populating cascading dropdown lists in JSP/Servlet

Question

Suppose I am having three dropdownlist controls named dd1, dd2 and dd3. The value of each dropdownlist comes from database. dd3<

Answer 1

That was an awesome simple solution. I like how small the JQuery code is and really appreciate the link to the GSON API. All the examples made this an easy implementation.

Had one issue on building the JSON server URL with the reference to the parent SELECT ( e.g. $(this).val() ) [needed to specify the :selected attribute]. I've modified the script a little to include the suggested updates. Thanks for the initial code.