Actually, a List has one advantage over a Map in that one has control over the order in which the elements are displayed.
BTW, the List (or, more generally, the Collection) is assumed to contain SelectItem instances. - Brendan -----Original Message----- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:21 PM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Best way to use object properties from a List to create Select Items? What's the best way in JSF/MyFaces to use a List to create a select options list? I know the SelectItems can be built from a Map, but it doesn't seem to support a list of objects too well. Can I at least set them easily looping over my collection manually? For example in JSTL.. I can creat my options ... <c:forEach items='${employees}' var='emp'> <html:option value="${emp.empID}">${emp.name}</html:option> </c:forEach> Can I do this with a dataList inbetween <h:selectOneMenu > tags? It would be cool if the selectItems tag supported: <f:selectItems collection="#{employees}" label="${name} value="${empID}" /> (above would loop over your collection of employees pull out Employee and call appropriate getters - getName getEmpID ) -- Rick
