Capture Select Variable in JSP and make it available to the Servlet list

Question

I have a JSP form with 'Select' of options that's a list.  I want to make the variable selected available for my Servlet.  Not sure about request.set??("xxx"); syntax should be in the JSP to reference the value in my servlet to subsequently update a database.  How is that done?                            while (approvalsIterator.hasNext())
                              accessRequest = (AccessRequest) approvalsIterator.next();
                    %>
                              <tr class="tableRowOdd">
                                   <td><input type="text" id="jobRqstUserid" name="jobRequestorID" value="<%=accessRequest.getJob_rqst_userid()%>" /></td>
                                   <td><input type="text" id="jobname" name="accessRequests" value="<%=accessRequest.getJOB_NAME()%>" /></td>
                                   <td><input type="text" id="rqstrGroupNm" name="accessRequestsRqstrGrpNm" value="<%=accessRequest.getActive_dir_grp_nm() %>" /></td>
                                   <td>
                                        <select name="drpApproveDeny" class="select">
                                             <option value="APP">Approve</option>
                                             <option value="DNY">Deny</option>
                                        </select>
                                        <%
                                        String approvalInd = request.getParameter("drpApproveDeny");
                                        %>

Answer 1

You can get the selected value with
request.getParameter("drpApproveDeny");I.e. the same way that you get values from almost all of the HTML input elements.