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· peiche

Say I have an object that contains objects of the same type as children, like so:

public class Box {
 int id;
 String name;
 List<Box> boxList;
}

How do I iterate through its potentially infinite children in the JSP? Simple: have a page include itself. I have two pages, main.jsp and box.jsp.

First, main.jsp will include box.jsp after setting the box list in the request scope:

<c:set var="boxList" value="${boxList}" scope="request" />
<jsp:include page="box.jsp" />

Then, box.jsp iterates over the list and includes itself in order to iterate over its children:

<ul>
 <c:forEach var="box" items="${boxList}">
 <li>
 ${box.name} <!-- or whatever else you want to display -->
 <jsp:include page="box.jsp" />
 </li>
 </c:forEach>
</ul>

Boom. Done.

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