I've an array keeping a list of Group objects. I want to set this list to the DropDownChoice component. However I want to show the end user only the name attribute of Group objects, and then get the selected values' id attribute to add database. What to do? private List<Group> groupTypes; DatabaseApp db = new DatabaseApp(); groupTypes = db.getGroups(); groupDropDownChoice = new DropDownChoice("type", groupTypes); ... ... addUserForm.add(new Button("submit"){ @Override public void onSubmit(){ Group group = (Group) groupDropDownChoice.getModelObject(); ... ... db.addUser(group.getId(), den, name, login, email, password1); DatabaseApp.java public List<Group> getGroups() throws SQLException{ List<Group> groups = new ArrayList<Group>(); try { String query = "SELECT * FROM [GROUP]"; Statement statement = db.createStatement(); ResultSet result = statement.executeQuery(query); while(result.next()){ int id = result.getInt("ID"); String name = result.getString("NAME"); groups.add(new Group(id, name)); } result.close(); } catch (SQLException ex) { throw new SQLException(ex.getMessage()); } return groups; }