How to populate dropdown box in Spring MVC

Question

I have been trying to find out how to populate a dropdown box in Spring MVC. There are a few threads out there on this subject but none of them that I have found have helped

Answer 1

I have solved this kind of problem today by myself. This is very simple and easy to understand. In Spring MVC 3.0 controller just place this code -

 @ModelAttribute("creditCardTypes")
 public Map populateCreditCardTypes() {
        Map creditCardTypes = new LinkedHashMap();
        creditCardTypes.put("VS", "Visa");creditCardTypes.put("MC", "MasterCard");
        creditCardTypes.put("AE", "American Express");
        creditCardTypes.put("DS", "Discover");creditCardTypes.put("DC", "Diner's Club");                
        return creditCardTypes;
    }

Now "creditCardTypes" attribute will be avaiable in the page loading or page submitting scope , means it will available whatever the requestmapping url would be.

In jsp , place this code inside the - Credit card types:

here , path="creditCardType" means the attribute in the Spring MVC model/command object, items="${creditCardTypes}" means all the populated credit card types will be available in "creditCardTypes" ModelAttribute. Thats it !!!