Thread: HashMap Display Default value

Dear , I m setting in java all the countries in hashMap like this---
countryName = cnt.getStringProperty("COUNTRY_NAME");
oid = ""+cnt.getLongProperty("OID");
countries.put(countryName, oid)

and displaying the All countries in the drop down like

<html:select property="country" styleClass="comboStyle" style="width:200px;" >
<htmlptions collection="countries" property="value" labelProperty="key"/>
</html:select>

Now i want to display country "India" in dropdwon as default selected value how can i do it ???

i also want to know i have to do make condition in the Putting country and oid in countryName=> countries.put(countryName, oid) ;

or on the jsp I have to put the condition to show the country "India" By default selected.

and plz tell me the solution how can i do it??