Dropdown values in Web request and Adobe form.

Hi All,
I am a Abap dynpro & adobe forms developer.
I have to work on a CRM project to generate Adobe forms using Web request.
I could create forms submit data etc.
Now came up with a requirement where I need to have dropdown in the form the source being comming from SAP.
Can somebody help me how to create dropdowns and populate values in Adobe from from Web request.
For your info : I have BADI implementations on the web request. in that On create method I need to populate date for this web request. so the query nails down to what should be the web request structure for dropdowns and how to set values to them.
Thanks in advance,
Sai krishna.

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1) making the field as enumrated list in abap web dynpro.
2) Adding the required enumrated list to this field.
3) binding this field to a web dynpro native control "enumrated dropdown list".

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