DropDown List Error handler

[paul alvin]

I have a code that use dropdown list in my jsp page

here's the code

<tr>
						<td width="27"> </td>
						<td width="164"><label class="textFont">Organization Type</label> </td>
						<td width="168"><select name="OrgType" class="txtbox" tabindex="1">
								<option value="1">Please choose...</option>
								<%
									Iterator it2 = Org_Items2.iterator();
									while (it2.hasNext())
									{
										OrganizationItems orgItem2 = (OrganizationItems) it2.next();
										//EMSItems newsItem4 = new EMSItems();
								%>
								<option value=<%=orgItem2.getOrgTypeId()%>><%=orgItem2.getOrgTypeName()%></option>
								<%
									}
								%>

						</select></td>
						<td width="120">
							<%
								if (errors.containsKey("OrgType"))
								{
									out.println("<span class=\"warning\">" + errors.get("OrgType") + "</span>");
								}
							%>
						</td>
						<td width="30"> </td>
					</tr>

then I use the following in the header of the page

<%@ page import="java.util.Iterator"%>
<%@ page import="data_registration_items.OrganizationItems"%>
<jsp:useBean id="Org_Items2" scope="request" type="java.util.List" />
<jsp:useBean id="errors" scope="request" type="java.util.Map" class="java.util.HashMap" />

I tried to verify that the dropdown control does not allow to pass the value of the "Please Select..." by the code

String OrgType = req.getParameter("OrgType");
		if ("1".equals(OrgType))
		{
			errors.put("OrgType", "Required");
		}
		else if(req.getParameter("OrgType") != null && !"".equals(req.getParameter("OrgType")))
		{
			long OrgTypeId = Integer.parseInt(req.getParameter("OrgType"));
			emsItem.setOrgTypeId(OrgTypeId);
		}

but still I cannot get it...How can I properly handle this situation?

[Amit Ghorpade]

Don't you think that client side validations like this should go into Javascript??