Bear, you were correct in your guess. Sorry that I wasn't clear enough. Yes, clicking on the image link(button) directs the user to another jsp page.
Greg, it was hot here so I was thinking for a full min but still didn't get your joke
Steffan, yes I followed a similar approach by using 'value' property instead of 'id' property.
I got things worked out by saving the value of 'varStatus' within the collection then pass the whole collection to the second jsp page in session scope. One thing I noticed though, is that if a field is CLOB or BLOB, its contents won't be retrievable at all from session variable. The error message complained of a failed database connection. It seems as though jstl <c:set .... scope="session"> only passes the references to the CLOB/BLOB objects, not the actually objects. For example, in a scriptlet in the forwarded jsp, I was able to print out the Clob object (after retrieve it from session variable and typecasting it to Clob- (something like oracle.sql.CLOB@7634gadfa6) but if I tried to print out object.length(), I got that error message. I now have to resort to open another database connection in a scriptlet (instead from jstl <sql:setDatasource ...> tag), then use the getClob(). Any other alternative? Thank you all for the help.
[ August 29, 2006: Message edited by: thomas silver ]