But That would be good only in cases where you know before hand , how many checkboxes are there and what are there names, Imagine a scenario where the name is a same its a checkbox group and you do not know how many checkboxes are there as say they are populated from a database. In that case you can never be sure.
This is obviously a case for storing information in the session as the page is being generated, possibly as an ArrayList or String[]
That way when you are processing the form data you will have a list of all checkboxes.
Bill