Struts Action Class

Is there any way to call an action from a jsp to fill a collection.

I have an Struts Action Class that retrieves records from DB (using data-source) and set the results into an ArrayList. Then the action class sets the list as request.setAttribute(list);

I want to use this list to populate a drop-down in my JSP as soon as the user opens the JSP.

In other words there is no explicit call to My Action Class.

How do i do that.

Thanx.

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[519 byte] By [arunkumar504a] at [2007-10-3 2:29:15]