I recently created an interactive Java Applet which communicates with the Google Maps API on a web page. Unfortunately Applets are a thing of the past (in my opinion) and I now need to convert a web page using an Applet into a JSP page which does not require an Applet.
My question is whether or not an API exists which can alternatively perform the same functions as a JTable (e.g. get data from database and display interactively)? I apologize in advance if this is a dumb question, however I am fairly new to web development.
There is a lot begged by your question such as:
Where is the database and what kind; is it local in the browser (SQLite) or remote?
If remote, do you have a web service that delivers the data via http request?
If not, and you are starting from scratch I would recommend looking at an AJAX helper like jQuery, MooTools or Dojo and Java Servlets/JSP/JSTL since you have a background in java.