Re: Displaying a HashMap as a

2005-03-08 Thread Jeff Beal
Good point. I had forgotten about that class (added in JDK 1.4). On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:18:50 -0500, Nidel, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that there's also the java.util.LinkedHashMap which will > maintain whichever order you insert the values in. This gives -- Jeff Beal Webmedx, Inc.

RE: Displaying a HashMap as a

2005-03-08 Thread Nidel, Mike
PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 9:34 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Displaying a HashMap as a > > > Even if the results coming out of the database are sorted, throwing > them into a non-sorted Collection, like a basic HashMap, wi

Re: Displaying a HashMap as a

2005-03-08 Thread Jeff Beal
Even if the results coming out of the database are sorted, throwing them into a non-sorted Collection, like a basic HashMap, will un-sort them. If you use a List, you just preserve the database sort order. If you use a TreeMap, you can get the same sort order, but the TreeMap object will go throu

Re: Displaying a HashMap as a

2005-03-08 Thread David Johnson
my thought was just to let the DB do the work on the sorting. Is that bad? On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:29:08 -0700, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "James Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I wouldn't use a Map, I would go with a List. Primarily for ordering. > > I use java.util.TreeMap

Re: Displaying a HashMap as a

2005-03-07 Thread Wendy Smoak
From: "James Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wouldn't use a Map, I would go with a List. Primarily for ordering. I use java.util.TreeMap-- automatic alphabetical order for my lists of (String) codes and descriptions. -- Wendy Smoak -

Re: Displaying a HashMap as a

2005-03-07 Thread James Mitchell
ot; Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 11:33 AM Subject: Displaying a HashMap as a Hi all I have a HashMap in my application context called "codes" that contains a bunch of key,value pairs where the key is an Integer representing the codeID and the value is a string representing the

Re: Displaying a HashMap as a

2005-03-07 Thread David Johnson
Thanks Wendy! My problem was the following. In order to get this to display, I of course needed to set up all the crap asociated with doing such a thing... This is a list partially to get it into the archives so I can search on it later. So, I did the following 1. Loaded an ArrayList of CodeBean

Re: Displaying a HashMap as a

2005-03-07 Thread Wendy Smoak
From: "David Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I simply want to create a select box containing all the items in my > HashMap (displaying the codeName but passing the codeID) > What's the easiest way to do this? Can I do this wil just a vanilla > HashMap? The examples are slightly confusing. I agree..

Displaying a HashMap as a

2005-03-07 Thread David Johnson
Hi all I have a HashMap in my application context called "codes" that contains a bunch of key,value pairs where the key is an Integer representing the codeID and the value is a string representing the codeName I simply want to create a select box containing all the items in my HashMap (displaying