How to populate options of h:selectOneMenu from database?

Question

I am creating a web application, where you have to read a list of objects / entities from a DB and populate it in a JSF . I am unable to

Answer 1

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Backing-Bean

   List names = new ArrayList();

   //-- Populate list from database

   names.add(new SelectItem(valueObject,"label"));

   //-- setter/getter accessor methods for list

To display particular selected record, it must be one of the values in the list.