Ditto, I just checked this out and wish I'd known about it sooner!

-----Original Message-----
From: Mazza, Glen R, PERSCOM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: August 28, 2002 7:28 AM
To: 'Joe Barefoot'; Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: Result paging for site search results


Thanks, Joe, for alerting the list to this display taglib--I just looked at
the link you provided--it looks very professional/displays very well.

Glen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Barefoot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 2:03 PM
> To: Struts Users Mailing List
> Subject: RE: Result paging for site search results
> 
> 
> Simon,
> 
> I'm not sure if you are handling very large ResultSets and 
> need database-aware paging (i.e., user clicks "next", and the 
> next 25 results are fetched from DB, vs. having them all in a 
> Collection that you are "paging" through in-memory).  If you 
> aren't handling very large volumes, I suggest you check out 
> the very savvy display taglib (link below).  If you may be 
> handling large volumes in the future (but not right now), it 
> can easily be replaced later with a custom paging 
> implementation.  It works well in conjunction with Struts; 
> basically, you just stuff your Collection into the request, 
> and the tag uses Struts-like syntax plus the commons 
> utilities to access properties of the objects in your 
> collection.  Sorting and paging are supported (and style 
> classes), and you can add dynamic output to table rows using 
> a TableDecorator class that uses the Decorator pattern to 
> 'massage' data from your Collection objects.  Very simple, 
> and very well documented w/ examples, JSP source, etc.
> 
> http://edhill.its.uiowa.edu/display/
> 
> 
> peace,
> Joe
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Galbreath, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:49 AM
> > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
> > Subject: RE: Result paging for site search results
> > 
> > 
> > This very topic was discussed at length just a couple of days 
> > ago.  Check
> > the archives:
> > 
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user%40jakarta.apache.org/
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: simon.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:simon.o'[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:59 PM
> > To: Struts Users Mailing List
> > Subject: Result paging for site search results
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > All
> > 
> > I am a newbie so if this question sounds a bit simple don't shoot...
> > 
> > I am developing a search page and want to break the results 
> > into pages of
> > containg 25 results per page.  I know I can use the "offset" 
> > and "length"
> > parameters on the iterator tag but I can't seem to be able 
> to pass the
> > formBean maintaining the results data to the next 
> page...... any ideas
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Simon.
> > 
> > 
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