Populate select menus with data from Servlet to JSP
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I want to pass some values from a database to populate a page with various select menus(Around 5). I can do this using JSTL SQL tag but it's not good practice. How can I get this data from a single servlet?. Can I send multiple lists from one servlet?  The select menus are populated from different tables. I want to use request dispatcher to forward the lists to the jsp 