significance of property attribute in select tag

[Anand Raman]

hi guys

What exactly should be the value of the property attribute of select tag

I am using a string and it reports that the value doesnt confirm to the
TLD.

<html:select property="paymentMode">
        <html:options collection="paymentModeList" property="id" 
labelproperty="value"/>
</html:select>

Tomcat reports that the property attribute's value doesnt confirm to the TLD.

Surprisingly it has been working in some other jsp files..

However when i use 

<html:select property="<%= new String("paymentMode") %>">
        <html:options collection="paymentModeList" property="id" 
labelproperty="value"/>
</html:select>
Tomcat reports ::: Attribute paymentMode has no value

Please clarify

Thanks
Anand Raman