Question

I just had to switch from ICEFaces dataTable to simple forEach tag, because I had to place elements in two rows rather than 1.

Anyway, now I can’t use the old paginator because it returns me an error. I know I can use begin and end attributes to define from and to what element should forEach iterate, but still I don’t know how to get it all together.

I currently have something very very simple like

<table>
    <c:forEach id="content" items="#{bean.collection}" var="item">
    [two well-formatted TRs]
    </c:forEach>
</table>

Do you have already-done examples on how to paginate with simple first/forward/back/last buttons this table? I don’t need directly clicking on page number.

Answer 1

c:forEach has a begin and end attribute (see docs), with them you can easily create pagination. You will need to have a begin, end, and listSize attribute in your bean.

Create a first, back link if begin==0; create forward, last link if end<listSize. In the bean set begin and end according to the current page.

If you need numbers in pagination, it is possible too, see:

http://blog.opencampaign.co.uk/index.php/2010/07/pagination-using-only-jstl.html and
http://www.coderanch.com/t/60467/oa/do-database-pagination-JSTL-tags