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Hi, i have created a servlet class with doGet()/doPost() methods and a jsp file. I need to populate this JSP with dropdown list data from the database. All i have is a dropdown box on the jsp

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
	<title>Batch Override</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
	<h1>Batch Override List</h1>
	<p>This application retrieves list of override items and tasks
	<form action="override">
		<table>
			<tr><td class="instruction">Select usename ...</td></tr>
			<tr height="15"><td></td></tr>
			<tr>
				<td>Username: </td>
				<td>
	              <select name="username">
	                <c:forEach var="ovr" items='${overrides}'>
	                  <option value="${ovr.overrideId}">${ovr.userId}</option>
	                </c:forEach>
	              </select>
				</td>
			</tr>						
		</table>
	</form>		
</body>
</html>

and here's my servlet

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        InitialContext ic = null;
        List<BatchOverride> batchOverrideList = new ArrayList<BatchOverride>();
        try {			
			
            LOGGER.info("Configuring CORBA System properties and initialising JNDI context lookup");

// Set system properties.
			System.setProperty("com.ibm.CORBA.ConfigURL",
					configuration.getString("InvocationContext.corbaConfigURL"));
			System.setProperty("java.security.auth.login.config",
					configuration.getString("InvocationContext.loginConfig"));
	        
			// Set initial context.
			Hashtable<String, String> env = new Hashtable<String, String>();
			env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, configuration
					.getString("InvocationContext.initialContextFactory"));
			env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL,
					configuration.getString("InvocationContext.providerUrl"));
			try {
				ic = new InitialContext(env);
			} catch (NamingException namingException) {
				LOGGER.debug("NamingException caught."
						+ namingException.getMessage());
			}
			
	        LOGGER.info("Looking UP Remote object batchOverrideRemote");
	        
			// EJB name look up.
			try {
				ic.lookup("");
				if (ic != null) {				
					batchOverrideRemote = (BatchOverrideManagerRemote) ic
							.lookup(configuration
									.getString("Jndi.BatchOverrideManagerRemote"));
				}
			} catch (NamingException namingException) {
				throw new IllegalStateException("Failed to connect to remote bean"
						+ "Reason: " + namingException);
			}
	        	        
	        RetrieveBatchOverrideListReply batchOverrideReply = batchOverrideRemote.retrieveBatchOverrideList();		        
	        batchOverrideList = batchOverrideReply.getBatchOverride();

}
		catch (RetrieveBatchOverrideListFault e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} 			
		
		request.setAttribute("overrides", batchOverrideList);
        RequestDispatcher rd = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/batchOverrideList.jsp");
        rd.forward(request, response);
	}

To run this app i went to jsp right clicked and Run on server. The page loads with no errors by i think the doGet() was never invoked. No logs, errors or warnings, just an empty drop down
here's my web.xml

am i missing a step here? do i need an index page