Combobox - set default value; get selected value

Question

Hi!
I have a combobox (h:selectOneMenu) in my application. I put the values in it from a java bean. I would like to set the default value of combo box, but I don't know how.
And I would like to know which value is selected, but I don't know as well.
Please help mt to find the solution of these 2 problems!
Thanks!
rfalir
******************************* JSP ***************************
<h:selectOneMenu id="type" binding="#{myComboBoxValuesBean.myBindingValuesForType}">
<f:selectItems value="#{myComboBoxValuesBean.valuesForType}"/>
</h:selectOneMenu>
***********************************bean***********************************
package bean;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.faces.component.html.HtmlSelectOneMenu;
public class ComboBoxValuesBean {
     HtmlSelectOneMenu myBindingValuesForType;
     Map valuesForType;
     // ************************** getter **************************
     public HtmlSelectOneMenu getMyBindingValuesForType() {
          return myBindingValuesForType;
     public Map getValuesForType() {
          if (valuesForType == null) {
               initValuesForType();
          return valuesForType;
     // ************************** setter **************************
     public void setMyBindingValuesForType(HtmlSelectOneMenu myBindingValuesForType) {
          this.myBindingValuesForType = myBindingValuesForType;
     public void setValuesForType(Map valuesForType) {
          this.valuesForType = valuesForType;
     // ************************** others **************************
     private void initValuesForType() {
          valuesForType = new HashMap();
          valuesForType.put("Karakter","C");
          valuesForType.put("Sz�m","N");
          valuesForType.put("D�tum","D");
}

Answer 1

h:selectOneMenu works as following:
JSF<h:selectOneMenu value="#{myBean.selectedItem}">
    <f:selectItems value="#{myBean.selectItems}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>MyBeanprivate String selectedItem;
public String getSelectedItem() {
    if (selectedItem == null) {
        selectedItem = "key2"; // default value;
    return selectedItem;
public void setSelectedItem(String selectedItem) {
    this.selectedItem = selectedItem;
public List getSelectItems() {
    List selectItems = new ArrayList();
    selectItems.add(new SelectItem("key1", "value1");
    selectItems.add(new SelectItem("key2", "value2");
    selectItems.add(new SelectItem("key3", "value3");
    return selectItems;
}