String myParameter = context.getExternalContext().getRequestParameterMap().get("myParameterPath");

<form:select path="myParameterPath" id="myParameterId">
    ...
</form:select>

<select name="myParameterPath" id="myParameterId">
...
</select>

  Elephant elephant = ...; // get the elephant from somewhere

  while (!elephant.isEatenCompletely()) {
    elephant.haveOneBite();
  }

private static Date cvtToGmt( Date date )
{
   TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
   Date ret = new Date( date.getTime() - tz.getRawOffset() );

   // if we are now in DST, back off by the delta.  Note that we are checking the GMT date, this is the KEY.
   if ( tz.inDaylightTime( ret ))
   {
      Date dstDate = new Date( ret.getTime() - tz.getDSTSavings() );

      // check to make sure we have not crossed back into standard time
      // this happens when we are on the cusp of DST (7pm the day before the change for PDT)
      if ( tz.inDaylightTime( dstDate ))
      {
         ret = dstDate;
      }
   }

   return ret;
}

// insert code here..

python AddLicense.py ${path}

 1:# Python script to add the LGPL notices to each java file of the FileContentManager project.
 2:import os, glob, sys
 3:License = """\
 4:/**
 5:*FileContentManager is a Java based file manager desktop application, 
 6:*it can show, edit and manipulate the content of the files archived inside a zip.
 7:*
 8:*Copyright (C) 2008 
 9:*
10:*Created by Camila Sanchez [http://mimix.wordpress.com/], Rafael Naufal [http://rnaufal.livejournal.com] 
11:and Rodrigo [rdomartins@gmail.com]
12:*
13:*FileContentManager is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
14:*modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
15:*License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
16:*version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
17:*
18:*This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
19:*but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
20:*MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
21:*Lesser General Public License for more details.
22:*
23:*You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
24:*License along with FileContentManager; if not, write to the Free Software
25:*Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA """
26:
27:size = len(sys.argv)
28:if size == 1 or size > 2:
29:    print "Usage: AddLicense.py $1"
30:    sys.exit(1)
31:inputPath = sys.argv[1]
32:if not os.path.exists(inputPath):
33:    print inputPath, "does not exist on disk"
34:    sys.exit(1)
35:if not os.path.isdir(inputPath):
36:    print inputPath, "isn't a dir"
37:    sys.exit(1)   
38:for path, dirs, files in os.walk(inputPath):
39:    fileWithLicense = ''
40:    for filepath in [ os.path.join(path, f)
41:            for f in files if f.endswith(".java")]:
42:        content = file(filepath).read()
43:        f = file(filepath, "w")
44:        print >>f, License + "\n" + content
45:        f.close()
46:        
47:    

<!DOCTYPE etl SYSTEM "http://scriptella.javaforge.com/dtd/etl.dtd">
<etl>
    <connection id="db" driver="auto" url="jdbc:hsqldb:mem:tst" user="sa" password="" classpath="../lib/hsqldb.jar"/>
    <connection id="js" driver="script"/> 
    <connection id="log" driver="text"/> <!-- For printing debug information on the console -->

    <script connection-id="db">
        CREATE TABLE Table_In (
            Error_Code INT
        );
        CREATE TABLE Table_Out (
            Error VARCHAR(10)
        );
        
        INSERT INTO Table_IN VALUES (1);
        INSERT INTO Table_IN VALUES (7);
    </script>

    <query connection-id="db">
        SELECT * FROM Table_In
        <script connection-id="log">
            Transforming $Error_Code
        </script>
        <!-- Transformation is described as an enclosing query
         which is executed before nested elements -->
        <query connection-id="js"> 
            <![CDATA[
               if (Error_Code < 5) {
                    Error_Code='WARNING'; //Set a transformed value
               } else {
                    Error_Code='ERROR'; //Set a transformed value
               }
               query.next(); //Don't forget to trigger nested scripts execution
            ]]>
            <script connection-id="db">
                <!-- Insert transformed value -->
                INSERT INTO Table_Out VALUES (?Error_Code); 
            </script>
            <script connection-id="log">
                Transformed to $Error_Code
            </script>
        </query>
    </query>
</etl>

// write the HTML code out to stdout -- leave it to the user to redirect
System.out.print( "<html><body><form id='test' name='test' action='" );
System.out.print( url );
System.out.print( "/getStuff' method='POST'><input type='hidden' id='cid' name='cid' value=\"" );
System.out.print(  compId );
System.out.print( "\"/><input type='hidden' id='ids' name='ids' value=\"" );
System.out.print( ids );
System.out.print( "\"/>" );
System.out.print( "<input type='submit' name='Submit' value='Submit'></form></body></html>" );
System.out.println();

  public boolean isWorkingDay(Date date) {
        Calendar cal = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
        cal.setTime(date);
        int dayOfWeek = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK); 
        if ((dayOfWeek  Calendar.SATURDAY) || (dayOfWeek  Calendar.SUNDAY)) {
            return false;
        } 
        return true;
   }

// Lets send an SMS now.
//get a reference to the appropriate Connection object using an appropriate url
MessageConnection conn = (MessageConnection) Connector.open("sms://:50001");
//generate a new text message
TextMessage tmsg = (TextMessage) conn.newMessage(MessageConnection.TEXT_MESSAGE);
//set the message text and the address
tmsg.setPayloadText(message);
tmsg.setAddress("sms://" + number);
//finally send our message
conn.send();

// Time to receive one.
//get reference to MessageConnection object
MessageConnection conn = (MessageConnection) Connector.open("sms://:50001");
//set message listener
conn.setMessageListener(
   new MessageListener() {
      public void notifyIncomingMessage(MessageConnection conn) {
         Message msg = conn.receive();
         //do whatever you want with the message
         if(msg instanceof TextMessage) {
            TextMessage tmsg = (TextMessage) msg;
            System.out.println(tmsg.getPayloadText());
         } else if(msg instanceof BinaryMessage) {
            .....
         } else {
            ......
         }
      }
   }
);

int setHeight = 60;
color setColour = color(184 + random(-40, 40),
                        124 + random(-40, 40),
                        124 + random(-40, 40));
int wid = 600;

void setup() {
  size(wid, (int)((log(wid) / log(3) + 1) * (setHeight + 5)));
  background(0);
  smooth();
  
  cantorSet(10, 10, width - 20, setColour);
  
  save("cantorSet.png");
}

float rnd(float x) {
  return x + random(-20, 20);
}

void brushRect(int x, int y, int w, int h) {
  for (int i = 0; i < h; ++i) {
    float r = random(3);
    strokeWeight(r);
    float downpull = random(h / 4);
    float shudder = random(-2, 2);
    line(x + shudder, y + i, x + w - shudder, y + i + downpull);
  }
}

void cantorSet(int y, int offX, int wid, color col) {
  if ((y > height - 10) || (wid < 1))
    return;

  stroke(col);
  brushRect(offX, y, wid, setHeight);
  //fill(col);
  //rect(offX, y, wid, setHeight);
  
  color newCol = color(rnd(red(col)), rnd(green(col)),
                      rnd(blue(col)));
  cantorSet(y + setHeight + 5, offX, wid / 3, newCol);
  cantorSet(y + setHeight + 5, offX + wid*2/3, wid / 3, newCol);
}