How to iterate List in jsp without using for loop

Question

Hi,
I am developing a small application is struts. I have one ActionForm file which contain one List like getEmployeeDetailsList(). When I am using this list in jsp page for displaying data. I want to display it as employee name, employee address, employee designation and employee contact no. These all fields are available in the above list. Now what is the problem is that I am using logic:iterate method to iterate data. but this is not sufficient to display all records in order. like employee name should be in one table and they can be vertical not horizontal, employee address is also should be seperate. and same thing with employee designation and contact no. I don't want to use for loop to iterate this list. Please tell me about optionCollection for this list. only employee names should be one drop down and employee designation is also in another drop down.
Please help. It is really urgent.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Manveer

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you problem is, but one thing you can do is to create a new class and pass the list into its constructor (and store it as a private variable). Then, provide a set of functions in the new class that extracts data from the list and returns it in a form that the various parts of the JSP page wants. For example, one function may return a sorted list of just the employee names. In this way, all the business logic for formatting the data into a form that JSP page likes is hidden inside the new class.