How to name items that are coming from forEach loop

Question

I have an arraylist of String[]'s that I need to display on the screen. I am sorting through the arrayList and pulling the values I need and displaying them without a problem. Two of the values from the String[] the user can modify. The problem is that when they modify it they aren't being mapped back to the original ArrayList when I submit the form. There seem to me to be two possible answers... A. It can't be done, or B I don't know what to name the values.
So here is the code I am using and then I'll explain how I've worked around the problem.
<table><tr>
          <th> </th>
          <th><fmt:message key="T895Form.deNumber" /></th>
          <th><fmt:message key="T895Form.deDescription" /></th>
          <th><fmt:message key="T895Form.deValue" /></th>
          <th><fmt:message key="T895Form.calcOptions" /></th></tr>
          <c:set var="counter" value="0" />
     <c:forEach var="list" items="${sessionScope.T895Form.dictionaryDE}" varStatus="status">
          <c:if test="${list[0]>100}">
               <c:set var="counter" value="${counter+1}" />
               <tr>
                    <td><c:out value="${counter}" /></td>
                    <td><INPUT type="text" size="5" MAXLENGTH="5" name="deNumber"
                                   readonly style="background-color: #D3D3D3;"
                                   value="<c:out value='${list[0]}' />"></td>
                    <td><INPUT type="text" size="50" MAXLENGTH="50" name="deDescription"
                                   readonly style="background-color: #D3D3D3;"
                                   value="<c:out value='${list[1]}' />"></td>
                    <td><INPUT type="text" size="20" MAXLENGTH="50" name="deValue"
                                   value="<c:out value='${list[2]}' />" onblur=""></td>          
                    <td><select name="calcOptions">
                         <c:choose>
                              <c:when test="${empty list[3]}">
                                   <option selected value=""></option>
                              </c:when>
                              <c:otherwise>
                                   <option value=""></option>
                              </c:otherwise>
                         </c:choose>
                         <c:choose>
                              <c:when
                                   test="${not empty list[3] and list[3] == 'O'}">
                                   <option selected value="O"><fmt:message
                                        key="T895Form.calcOptionsO" /></option>
                              </c:when>
                              <c:otherwise>
                                   <option value="O"><fmt:message key="T895Form.calcOptionsO" /></option>
                              </c:otherwise>
                         </c:choose>
                         <c:choose>
                              <c:when
                                   test="${not empty list[3] and list[3] == 'A'}">
                                   <option selected value="A"><fmt:message
                                        key="T895Form.calcOptionsA" /></option>
                              </c:when>
                              <c:otherwise>
                                   <option value="A"><fmt:message key="T895Form.calcOptionsA" /></option>
                              </c:otherwise>
                         </c:choose>
                         <c:choose>
                              <c:when
                                   test="${not empty list[3] and list[3] == 'S'}">
                                   <option selected value="S"><fmt:message
                                        key="T895Form.calcOptionsS" /></option>
                              </c:when>
                              <c:otherwise>
                                   <option value="S"><fmt:message key="T895Form.calcOptionsS" /></option>
                              </c:otherwise>
                         </c:choose>
                    </select></td>     
                    <td><INPUT type="hidden" size="20" MAXLENGTH="50" name="position"
                                   value="<c:out value='${list[8]}' />"></td>                                                       
               </tr>                                                  
          </c:if>     
     </c:forEach>
</table>Right now when I submit the page I get String[]'s returned for each of the columns... I thing use the position string[] that contains the position the row was pulled from the arraylist at and loop through the arrays and put them back in the arraylist... that way when I revisit the screen the arraylist still contains the users changes...
This all works.. but I was wondering if there was a better way to do this. .. ie name the deNumber input something else that will map directly back to the arrayList?
Thanks in advance... but again, it works the way I'm doing it... it just isn't very pretty.

Answer 1

There seem to me to be two possible answers...
A. It can't be done, or
B I don't know what to name the valuesIf you are talking standard JSP/JSTL the answer is A
however as part of Struts, they developed indexed properties.
You can use the jakarta commons BeanUtils package to automatically populate
Therefore the answer is B if you consider this approach.
Each individual textfield gets numbered. This is resolved by the BeanUtils package.
You don't NEED struts to do this. You can use the BeanUtils class on its own. I haven't done too much research into it though :-)
<INPUT type="text" size="5" MAXLENGTH="5" name="deNumber[${status.index}]" Linkies:
http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/building_view.html#indexed
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/beanutils/api/index.html
Cheers,
evnafets