Converting from String to custom Object for Spring MVC form Data binding?
I am using Spring MVC's SimpleFormController in conjunction with Spring MVC's form JTL to create a form to edit a Generic object. On my form I have a drop down where the user can specify a server via a drop down. <form:form commandName="generic"> <form:select path="server"> <form:options items="${servers}" itemValue="id" itemLabel="name"/> </form:select> </form:form> Servers here is propagated by a database call for all available servers. server is a Server ORM pojo, that is a sub-object of another ORM pojo (Generic) that serves as my form backing object. My goal here is to change Generic's