How to use Alphabetical sorting for values getting from resultset and display the values in a drop down on a jsp page

Hi ,

I have three things to do

1) collect the String values coming from a ResultSet on a specific column name.
2) store  the values into a java collection and sort the collection in Alphabetical order.
3) send the sorted collection to a jsp to be displayed in a drop down.

I have tried using the java.util.List to collect the values and used the Collections.sort()
and i get the the values unsorted and with padding like "[" and " ] " for the all the elements stored in the
list.

I probably can send u guys snippets of code if it helps..

Thanks
Deva