Menu item in Jsp/Servlet

Question

Hi experts, when you're using Jsp/Servlet to implement the front-end web application, what options do you have for implementing some menu dropdown?
Is awt or swing can be used for that purpose?
How would you go about the layout management issue?
Thanks, and your reponse is appreciated

Answer 1

I guess You are looking for a solution in JSP/Servlets. Here is my program that might be help ful to you. This program will bring a drop down list that fetches the values from the database.
<table cellpadding=4 cellspacing=2 border=0 align=center>
<TR>
<TD><B>choose Code</B></TD>
<TD valign=top>
<!-- this code is to generate the list of Codes-->
<% String userId =(String) session.getValue("userName"); %>
<%
Connection con = null;
Statement stmt = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
String uId;
String returnString="";
String null_value="";
try {
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:oracle:thin:@serverName:1521:localHost", "scott", "tiger");
if (con == null) {
System.out.println("Connection not found");
stmt = con.createStatement();
con.setAutoCommit(false);
String sql= "select code from example_list where user_id='"+userId+"'";
rs= stmt.executeQuery(sql);
%>
<select name="alcList">
<%String aString;
rs= stmt.executeQuery(sql);
while (rs.next()) {
%>
<option value="<%= aString = rs.getString("code") %>">
<%= aString %></option> <%}%></select><%
con.commit();
//returnString= true;
} catch(SQLException sqlex) {
sqlex.printStackTrace();
//return returnString;
} catch(Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} finally {
stmt.close();
con.close();
stmt = null;
rs = null;
con = null;
%></TD>
<TD align=center>
<INPUT TYPE=submit SIZE=30 VALUE="Submit"></TD>
</TR>
</Table>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>if this doesn't answer your problem, Please post your question exactly. May be I can help you out.
Good Luck.
-Sreekanth varidhireddy