title: Spring MVC - Reference Data
body: <p>Here is the scenario: I have something like this..</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form:select path="somePath" .....&gt;
     &lt;form:option value="" label="Please Select"/&gt;
     &lt;form:options items="${students}" itemValue="id" itemLabel="name"/&gt;
  &lt;/form:select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This dropdown list works fine.</p>
  
  <p>But how can I display name of a particular student? I wan to do something like this: </p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;c:out value="${students[id].name}"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can any one help me with the syntax?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>