I'm not too familiar with JSP at the moment. But you are confusing your HTML code with your interpreted code... I presume that JSP is parsed once. So you shouldn't include JSP tags inside other JSP...

The reason I ask is that there are methods for sending information from the JSP to the server (Forms).

If you want that information to be an ArrayList, then you have to store it in the session on...

Why do you want to pass an array list to your action class? didn't it come from the server in the first place?

Why not:


//this is some garbage i put in the page to make sure the values were indeed loading the recordset, indeed they are

var custom3 = new Array(<%
while (keywords.next()) {...