Right now, when the Registration page is rendered, none of the radio buttons are selected. If you want, you can provide a default option by giving the gender property an initial value, like this:
private String gender = "F";
Now the radio button labeled "Female" will be pre-selected.
The page works properly, but having a gender specified as an arbitrary string isn't a good design. For a set of mutually exclusive options like this, it would be better to have an enumeration. So let's add the following simple enumeration to the com.packtpub.celebrities.model
package:
package com.packtpub.celebrities.model; public enum Gender { MALE, FEMALE }
We can now modify all the gender-related code to work with the new Gender
type instead of String:
private Gender gender; ... public Gender getGender() { return gender; } public void setGender(Gender gender) { this.gender = gender; }
In case you want to provide a default value, you can do it like this:
private...