Problems with nested beans and displaying information in a dropdown box

[Justin Galzic]

I have a form that contains a bean with a nested collection that I'd like to
prepopulate but I'm having trouble displaying the correct information.. The
output html wiould ideally look like this:
<select name = "customers">
<option value="cust1000">Jon Doe</option>
<option value="cust2000">Jeff Newworth</option>
<option value="cust3000">Amy Madigan</option>
</select>

The ActionForm contains the bean with nested beans and the error mesage I
get from Tomcat is "Cannot find bean under name customer".

My form and bean classes are defined as:

public CustomerFormBean extends ActionForm
{
   CustomerBase getCustomerBase() { return customerBase; }
   private CustomerBase customerBase;
}

public class CustomerBase
{
   public Object[] getCustomers() { return customers.toArray(); }
   private ArrayList customers;
}

public class Customer
{
   public String getName() { return name; }
   public String getId() { return id; }

}


My jsp code looks like this:

   <nested:form action='CustomerAction.do'>
            <html:select property="selectedCustomer">

            <nested:nest property="customerBase">
            <nested:options collection="customers" name="customer"
property="id"/>
            </nested:nest>
            </html:select>

        </nested:form>


Could some one point me toward the right direction in helping me understand
what's wrong here?

Thanks,
Justin