JSP and HTML forms

Hi, I have been trying to work out a way to label rows of a dynamic html form, which can then be referenced by jsp. The project is a uni one in which we are building an online book store. At the moment, we have made a search for out database, the resultant table's size is obviously done on how many results there are. ONce the results are up, for every book, there is a text box, the name of which is the ISBN of that particular book (unique code every book has, thus the primary key). This text box is going to be used so that the 'customers' can enter in a number, which will be how many copies of this book they want.
This jsp files needs to be referenced by another, so we can send a cookie to the user's computer with book details. unfortunately, in order to know which book, and how many, the user wants, we need to know the name of the check box from the first jsp file, which we cannot hardcode because due to the dynamic nature of the form will be different every time!
Are we going about things the wrong way, because I cant seem to work out a way to do this.
Thanks,
Alex

Regardless of how many results are returned, the name of your checkbox will always be the same... that's just the nature of a list of checkboxes. What changes is the values of each individual checkbox, which can be retrieved using
String[] booksChecked = request.getParameterValues("books")where "books" is the name of your checkbox.
If each book has a unique ID, then probably use this value as the value of the checkbox, and then you receive an array of IDs.
To dynamically handle the quantity boxes, name each textbox with the unique key plus an extra bit of text..
<input type="text" name="<%= book.ID%>qty">
Then you can retrieve the quantity for each book by using..
for(int i=0; i < booksChecked.length; i++)
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