How to make a af:selectOneChoice without basedatasource

Question

I am using jDeveloper 11.1.1.3.0 and i am a beginner on ADF.
My Problem : I have a simple readonly jsp in which there is no data insertion/updation, in this i want to have a <af:selectOneChoice> which will display the list of values comming from a sql query. But i dont need to have a base datasource in which the selected value will be populated. Rather i want the selected value to be stored in a variable, which will be used by other component of the same page.
I understand that basedatasource is needed in case if i want to save the value in some view object which will later be saved in the database.
Please help me with your expert knowledge on how can i achieve this.

Answer 1

Thank You very much Gabriel, I am now successfully able to populate the selectOneChoice now with the result of my sql query which is the list of salary dates. But the value that gets stored in my bean variable is eg. 0 or 1 (this seems like the counter of the iterator). When i checked the view source, the <option> tag values are like below
<option value="0">DECEMBER -2002</option>
<option value="1">NOVEMBER -2002</option> ......
So the values getting stored in my backing bean member is like 0 or 1...
What i want actually is ,that the value should be an another attribute of my sql result set, and the displayed value in the dropdown list should be a description attribute.
eg. the value stored in the bean member should be 12/31/2002 , but the displayed value in the dropdown list should be DECEMBER -2002
Also. how can i eliminate the blank value comming in the dropdownlist.
For the better understanding i am providing the code which i have written.
My sql query has 2 columns which are PYRL_MTH_YR | PAYMONTH . And the sample resultset of the query is below.
12/31/2002 | DECEMBER -2002
11/30/2002 | NOVEMBER -2002
My pageDef binding code is below.
<list ListOperMode="navigation" IterBinding="PaySlipMonthListVO1Iterator"
ListIter="PaySlipMonthListVO1Iterator" id="PaySlipMonthListVO1"
StaticList="false">
<AttrNames>
<Item Value="Paymonth"/>
</AttrNames>
<ListAttrNames>
<Item Value="PyrlMthYr"/>
</ListAttrNames>
<ListDisplayAttrNames>
<Item Value="Paymonth"/>
</ListDisplayAttrNames>
</list>
My selectOneChoice is below.
<af:selectOneChoice value="#{requestScope.backing_PersonalDashboard.selectedMonth}"
label="PayMonth"
id="paymon2" ?
<f:selectItems value="#{bindings.PaySlipMonthListVO1.items}" id="si2"/>
</af:selectOneChoice>
Please help me with your expert solution.