Problem in selectonemenu

Question

hi..
i want to send the selected data in selectonemenu from jsp to my bean for the backendprocess.
value attrib in selectonemenu is used to send only d selected no of value.
here is the code;
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<htm:td id="searchviewtd11">
     <h:selectOneMenu id="searchviewselectone1" value="#{SearchBean.currentcustomerName}" styleClass="ee119">
                                        <f:selectItems id="searchviewselectitems1" value="#{SearchBean.customerName}"/>
                                   </h:selectOneMenu>
                                   </htm:td>=================
- here in selectitems 'customerName' is the list tat dynamically fetch data from the table by some cond. say,, it is having values like:
christopher
deni
vinoth
-from the above 3 values i select 'deni' and i want to send this data to a bean. if i use value attrib in selectonemenu it sends the 'currentCustomerName' as 1. but i need the name itself ie 'deni' in a string variable.
help me to solve this.. asap. tanx in adv...

Answer 1

SelectOneMenu works as follows:
JSF<h:selectOneMenu value="#{myBean.selectedItem}">
    <f:selectItems value="#{myBean.selectItems}" />
</h:selectOneMenu>MyBeanpublic List getSelectItems() {
    List selectItems = new ArrayList();
    selectItems.add(new SelectItem("key1", "value1"));
    selectItems.add(new SelectItem("key2", "value2"));
    selectItems.add(new SelectItem("key3", "value3"));
    return selectItems;
public void setSelectedItem(String selectedItem) {
    this.selectedItem = selectedItem;
    // this sets the key (key1, key2 or key3) and NOT the value.
    // the value is that what is been displayed in the menu to the user.
}HashMap is also an option, but I should use LinkedHashMap instead, because by default the HashMap is not ordered. However a List as shown in my example is most preferable.