Collection on jsp

I get an arraylist from the action on the jsp to display.
now i again want to set the arraylist into action and then submit the page, so that i can again fetch the same arraylist from the request in the action class.

What are the possibilities?

Please advise.

Put the arraylist into the session.

I want to accomplish this without the use of session.
Ne ideas?

"Ne" is not a word. Please use real words when posting.

This sucks, but you could put the values into hidden parameters.
But you have to separate values with something, like commas, which can be troublesome if some of the values already hold the separator.

<input type="hidden" name="myarray" value="one,two,three"/>

Originally posted by fahad siddiqui:
I want to accomplish this without the use of session.
Any ideas?

Why?

What don't you set the Arraylist object in the Request object. Like request.setAttribute("data", arrobject).

Let me know if it works for you.

Originally posted by Makarandp Parab:
What don't you set the Arraylist object in the Request object. Like request.setAttribute("data", arrobject).

Let me know if it works for you.

The request object is only good for the duration of one 'request'.
The original poster indicated that he wants to be able to retrieve the data after submitting the current page.

Originally posted by Makarandp Parab:

Let me know if it works for you.

I can answer that. It won't. Please don't waste people's time suggesting things that you don't know will work or not.

I get an arraylist from the action on the jsp to display.
now i again want to set the arraylist into action and then submit the page, so that i can again fetch the same arraylist from the request in the action class.

What are the possibilities?

You want have an object(ArrayList) along mutiple request. for a particular client?

Possibilities:

1. HttpSession - If it is for particular client.
2. ServletContext - If it for whole application.
3. hidden variable - You can have a hidden variable which will values which arraylist is having and pass it on every request to the action class.In Action class recreate arraylist with this values. but this ugly way of doing.
4. Using Database.

Better to use session or context.