If you do not like the screen to be refreshed/reloaded.. you can use ajax..perhaps with jquery.It will be soothing for the users of the screen.
regards, Tito Cheriachan http://www.titocheriachan.com ___________________________________________ 10 litres of water is required to produce a sheet of paper. -- On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Alfredo Manuel Osorio Martinez < alfredo.oso...@afirme.com> wrote: > What's the best approach to populate a select box dynamically? > > > > Imagine I need select boxes for the following fields (vehicle): > > Make > > Model > > Year > > > > Each of them are linked. If I select Make model should refresh and so > for model and year. > > > > I was thinking about using <s:action/> tag to render the output but > I've heard that's not recommended. > > > > Also I've heard that you should implement it in the prepare() method of > the Preparable interface but I have my doubts because what if I need to > use those select boxes across different jsp pages, should I repeat the > same logic through all those prepare() methods of their respective > Actions? > > > > Another approach would be to use javascript and get the values through > AJAX. > > > > Or should I use JSP custom tags? > > > > What do you think? What do you suggest? > > > > Alfredo Osorio > >
