Bind a list to HTML select with Spring

Let's say you have a list of objects that you want to bind as HTML SELECT in JSP. You need to populate the list with data in referenceData(). Note it has to be a list of objects with getters and setters for properties (or Spring PropertyValue object). Next you can add the following code in JSP.

<br /><form:select path="aProperty"<br /> itemLabel="name"<br /> itemValue="value"<br /> items="${myPropertyValueList}"><br /></form:select><br />

"aProperty" here is the name of the property in the command object that you want to bind the selected option to.