I've looked through the mail list but still don't quite get it. I'm working on a form that can create or edit a particular role and it's functions I want to (in create mode) select multiple functions and then in edit mode display those multiple functions selected in a multiple select listbox. Do I need a separate bean for the array that holds the particular selections of the edited role? Do I need an iterate tag of some sort? I'm able to populate my list box with only the first item in the array from my action. Using println I can see that I populated my array with the data I'm looking for. I have in my jsp java.util.ArrayList list = new java.util.ArrayList(); FunctionData[] allFunctions = (FunctionData[]) session.getAttribute("allFunctions"); for(int k = 0;k< allFunctions.length;k++) { list.add(new apex.ace.web.actions.LabelValueBean(allFunctions[k].getName(),allFunctions[k ].getPK().toString())); } pageContext.setAttribute("serverTypes",list); <html:select property="type" size="16" name="SubmitRoleForm" multiple="true"> <html:options collection="serverTypes" name="label" Property="value" labelProperty="label"/> </html:select> In my formbean I have getType() and setType() for String[] type in the my action I have String[] type = new String[role.getFunctions().size()]; int i = 0; Iterator it = role.getFunctions().values().iterator(); while(it.hasNext()) { type[i] = it.next().toString().substring(21); i++; } for (int j = 0;j< type.length;j++){ System.out.println(type[j]); } // Populate the subscription form if (form == null) { if (servlet.getDebug() >= 1) servlet.log(" Creating new Form bean under key " + mapping.getAttribute()); form = new SubmitRoleForm(); session.setAttribute("SubmitRoleForm", form); SubmitRoleForm subform = (SubmitRoleForm) form; subform.setRoleEdited(roleEdited); subform.setAction(action); subform.setName(name); subform.setKey(key); subform.setType(type);