Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I am working in Java Studio Creator and have a Dropdown list (Basic JSF component) that is tied to a database table.

That works fine, I get the correct items displayed.

The application is to fetch user informatin from a database and have the dropdown list display the current status of the user from the database.

The behavior I am looking for is this:
1) User information is read from database.
2) Property is set to the current user status
3) The dropdown list's selected item changes to the value of the property rather than the first item in the list..

I tried binding the "selected" value of the dropdown list to a "selectedValue"
property and changing it, but that does not seem to work.