If you have a series of checkboxes all with the same property and that property is of type String[],
you should be using html:multibox instead of html:checkbox. To set the checkbox as checked initially, just set the property of the bean. Example:
The following statement in an action that forwards to this JSP would cause the red checkbox to show as checked:
[ January 20, 2008: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]