Question

I am using the Spring MVC <form:select> tag in my JSP and have populated the values in it.

How can I retrieve the selected value from the select box and use it for further operations?

Answer 1

You can obtain them in the controller to which you submit. For example:

@RequestMapping("/submit")
public String handle(@RequestParam Foo selectedFoo) {
}

This assumes you have a converter from String to Foo. Otherwise you can simply use String as argument.

If you want to get the whole form submitted to a javabean, make a bean with fields named exactly the same as the fields in your html form, and pass it as argument to the handling method.