title: Spring 3 MVC: is it possible to have a spring form without 'commandName' binding?
body: <p>My question is, Is it necessary to have a '<em>commandName</em>' binding for forms and '<em>path</em>' bindings for inputs? </p>
  
  <p>I have a work flow which needs users to select data from a series of ajaxy select boxes. So the form doesn't exactly map to any model directly. It seems rather pointless to add another model just to accommodate this form, while everything on this form will be driven by ajax. 
  Now I know I can always write a classic form and select tags, but I would like to take advantage of spring tags here for example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form:options items="${list}" itemLabel="name" itemValue="id"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which allows me to easily populate by form items. And plus I would like to maintain uniformity in the project and use spring tags through. </p>
  
  <p>I would like to know thoughts and opinions on this topic. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>PS: I am coming from ruby on rails background and am used to lot of syntactic sugar :P forgive me if the question sounds silly or answer obvious.  </p>