Thanks for the response. The solution I went with is calling a
java method when the form is being painted. This method accesses the arrayList of checkboxes that should be checked, and then returns a boolean if the checkbox should be checked or not. Based on the value returned, I check/do not check the checkbox.
ex. <% myMethod(chackBoxValue) ? "CHECKED" : "" %>
where mymethod is called with the value associated with the particuler checkbox.
Thanks, Bosun