how to set arraylist in formbean and display the same values in jsp

[a kishore]

I have an action class, in which i read values from DB. i want to display those values in jsp using <html:select> as a listbox.

for this:
1)i declared one arraylist called statuslist in my formbean
2)im setting those retrieved values in action class to this arraylist like this.
while(rs.next())
{
fmActionForm = new FileManagementActionForm();
status = rs.getString("status");
statusList.add(status);
fmActionForm.setStatuslist(statusList);
}
3)in jsp, i try to display using <html:select> like this
<html:select property="selectedstatus" styleClass="select">
<html:options collection="statuslist" labelProperty="status" property="status"/>
</html:select>

i didnt use any session object to set and get in jsp for the arraylist.

Im getting error as: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find bean under name statuslist

can anybody tell me am i doing correctly or not?

thanks in advance,
kishore

[Ranveer K Kumar]

a kishore wrote:

while(rs.next())
{
fmActionForm = new FileManagementActionForm();
status = rs.getString("status");
statusList.add(status);
fmActionForm.setStatuslist(statusList);
}
<html:select property="selectedstatus" styleClass="select">
<html:options collection="statuslist" labelProperty="status" property="status"/>
</html:select>

while(rs.next())
            {
                 //fmActionForm = new  FileManagementActionForm();
                 status = rs.getString("status");                 
                 statusList.add(status);
                 
            }
fmActionForm.setStatuslist(statusList);

<html:select property="selectedstatus" styleClass="select">
<html:options collection="statuslist" labelProperty="status" property="status"/>
</html:select>

try above..
if not run then let me know the form and action in more details..

[a kishore]

Thanks for your reply Ranveer,

i observed that you commented the line

  //fmActionForm = new  FileManagementActionForm();     

in while loop. If i do so, the arraylist is storing only the last value when displaying in jsp.

my another doubt is, do i need to use session object to set arraylist in action class ? bcuz i use the following code to set arraylist in session. if i didnt put that in session, i couldnt get arraylist in jsp. it is throwing null pointer exception. any solution without session objects?

here is my code to set arraylist in session, in my action class

  
HttpSession session = request.getSession();
session.setAttribute("statuslist",statuslist);  

and my struts-config.xml action mapping is this:

   
<action path="/FileMgmt"
        type="com.d2dcms.login.LoginAction"
        name="LoginForm"
        input="/welcomeStruts.jsp"
        validate="true"
        scope="session">
        <forward name="success" path="/FileMgmtAction.do"/>
        <forward name="failure" path="/index.jsp"/>
        </action>