Accessing and Setting a Collection

Question

I have a basic bean like below
public class ViewBean
protected ArrayList views;
public ViewBean()
views = new ArrayList();
public Object[] getViews()
return views.toArray();
public void setViews(Object[] passedViews)
/// assign member views to passedViews, etc.
How would I access the views ArrayList from a jsp?
I want to be able to say something like this
for(int i=0; i<#{view.views.length}; i++)
<h:graphic_image url="images/#{view.views}.jsp"/>
Then I also want to set the views from another page
     <tr>
          <h:selectmany_checkboxlist value="#{view.views}">
          <td><f:selectitem itemLabel="View One" value="view_one"/></td>
          <td><f:selectitem itemLabel="View Two" value="view_two"/></td>
          <td><f:selectitem itemLabel="View Three" value="view_three"/></td>
          <td><f:selectitem itemLabel="View Four" value="view_four"/></td>
          <td><f:selectitem itemLabel="View Five" value="view_five"/></td>
          <td><f:selectitem itemLabel="View Six" value="view_six"/></td>
          </h:selectmany_checkboxlist>          
     </tr>
Any thoughts? Because I don't know how many views there will be, I can't set a property for each one.
Thanks.

Answer 1

For the first, look at the data_table component. Perhaps you will have to add a new renderer for it because the default one (table) will render your images vertically in a table.
For the select you can use <f:selectitems value="#{ViewBean.viewItems}" /> where ViewBean.getViewItems returns an array of SelectItems constructed from your view objects.