Populate Form Elements

[Jason Stortz]

Does anyone know how to make the form elements in a JSP populate automatically? I am getting very sick of doing:
input type="text" name="text" value="<%= myvalue %>"
This is even uglier with select lists, those of you who have done this know what I mean.
Anyone got any ideas?
I have all the values when entering the JSP I just want to be able to do something easy to make the form populate with those values.
Thanks,
Jason

[Tim Holloway]

Struts is good for this. Take a look at http://jakarta.apache.org/struts and read the docs on Form Beans.
If you need a quick overview of Struts and can get your hands on the April 2002 issue of Java Pro magazine, I humbly offer my attempt along those lines. Unfortunately the online issue has now gone over to May and the April hasn't yet been added to the archives, so you'll probably have to chase down a print copy.