I'm sure this has been asked before but I haven't had any luck finding
the answer. I'm having trouble getting the checkbox to work.

My web application uses a database and I have screens that add and edit
records. One of the fields is a boolean called isPermanent. So my
ActionForm has a boolean field called isPermanent.

public class DataSetForm extends ActionForm {
  private boolean isPermanent;
  public setIsPermanent(boolean b) {
    isPermanent = b;
  }
  public getIsPermanent() {
    return isPermanent;
  }
etc.

In my addRecord.jsp I've got my form setup and it includes this:
<html:checkbox property="isPermanent"/>

And my Action has this:
PreparedStatement stmt = connection.prepareStatement("insert into blah
blah isPermanent=?");
stmt.setBoolean(1, form.getIsPermanent());
stmt.execute();

All this works great. My question is with the editRecord.jsp. I'm
pulling the record out of the data based on the key field, but when I
display the checkbox how to if set it to checked based on the value in
the data table?

Right now I'm doing something like this (greatly abbreviated)

<%
  ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select etc");
  if(rs.next()) {
    boolean isPermanent = rs.getBoolean("isPermanent");
  }
%>

Then further down I do this

<%
  if(isPermanent) {
%>
  <input type="checkbox" name="isPermanent" checked>
<%
  }
  else {
%>
  <input type="checkbox" name="isPermanent">
<%
  }
%>

When I first started working with the checkbox I expected it to have a
value= option the way the other components do, but it doesn't appear to
work the way the other components work.   Or am I missing something?

Thanks

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