I have a validate method in a bean class that works and now I want to
condense it into a for loop.

Here is what I have:

//firstname and lastname are declared earlier
public boolean validate()
{
   boolean allOk=true;
   if (firstName.equals("")) {
     errors.put("firstName","Please enter your first name");
     allOk=false;
   }
   if (lastName.equals("")) {
     errors.put("lastName","Please enter your last name");
     allOk=false;
   }
   return allOk;
 }

My attempt doesnt work because I cant seem to figure out how to put
the array reference in the key part of the errors.put method:

public boolean validate()
{
   boolean allOk=true;
   String [] myarray = {firstname, lastname}
   for(int i=0;i < myarray.length;i++)
   {
   if (myarray[i].equals("")) {
     errors.put(myarray[i],"Please enter your " + myarray[i]);
     allOk=false;
   }
   }
   return allOk;
 }

The results dont validate any of my data so I assume I have something
wrong with my array.  Please advise.