Hi fellows, I'm trying to use DATASRC attribute in jsp, but it doesn't work. What I mean is there's no data displayed on the page. But, when I change the value "query.jsp" to "datasrc.txt" where datasrc.txt contains all the records from such table, it worked. Please help me on this. The purpose I want to do this is to make user life easier when they want to sort the data on the html page. Because this technique of sorting is really fast and no need to do re-query. Here is the code of mine, --result.html-- <html> <body> <OBJECT id=elem_list CLASSID="clsid:333C7BC4-460F-11D0-BC04-0080C7055A83"> <PARAM NAME="DataURL" VALUE="query.jsp"> <PARAM NAME="UseHeader" VALUE="True"> </OBJECT> <TABLE datasrc=#elem_list> <THEAD> <TR> <TD> <b> Title </b> </TD> <TD> <b> Owner </b> </TD> <TD> <b> Date </b> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD> <b> <a href="javascript:elem_list.Sort = '+Title';elem_list.Reset();"> + </a> <a href="javascript:elem_list.Sort = '-Title';elem_list.Reset();"> - </a> </b> </TD> <TD> <b> <a href="javascript:elem_list.Sort = '+Owner';elem_list.Reset();"> + </a> <a href="javascript:elem_list.Sort = '-Owner';elem_list.Reset();"> - </a> </b> </TD> <TD> <b> <a href="javascript:elem_list.Sort = '+Date';elem_list.Reset();"> + </a> <a href="javascript:elem_list.Sort = '-Date';elem_list.Reset();"> - </a> </b> </TD> </TR> </THEAD> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <SPAN DATAFLD="Title"> </SPAN> </TD> <TD> <SPAN DATAFLD="Owner"> </SPAN> </TD> <TD> <SPAN DATAFLD="Date"> </SPAN> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </body> </html> --query.jsp-- <%@ page import="java.sql.*, java.text.*" %> <jsp:useBean id="db" scope="request" class="com.jspdb.jdbcBean" /> <% db.openConn(); String sqlQuery = "SELECT title, owner, date FROM tb_books"; ResultSet rs = db.getResults(sqlQuery); out.print("Title,Owner,Date\n"); while (rs.next()) { String title = rs.getString("urltitle"); String owner = rs.getString("urlowner"); Timestamp date = rs.getTimestamp("urldate"); SimpleDateFormat dateformatter = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy"); String stringdate = dateformatter.format(date); out.print(title+","+owner+","+stringdate+"\n"); } db.CloseStmt(); db.CloseConn(); %> --datasrc.txt-- Title,Owner,Date title1,maumul,10/23/2000 title300,maumul,10/28/2000 title2,maumul,10/24/2000 title5,maumul,10/23/2000 title6,maumul,10/23/2000 title4,maumul,10/28/2000 title110,maumul,10/23/2000 Thanks & regards, Muliawan _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets