spring mvc: How Can I give the <form:textarea /> tag a default value?

Question

I have a problem with giving the tag a default value.
When I created a .jsp file as follow,

Answer 1

You can also set the defaul text in the Model as well. Your jsp would have:

and then in the Model, you'd have:

private static final String DEFAULT_textareacontent = "Hello World";
private String my-text-box = DEFAULT_textareacontent;

Not sure if this is a best practice or not, but it seems to work for me.