I imagine display tags does it for you mostly if you go that way, else
I'll knock up an example tonight. Finally getting back into taglibs and
jsp :)
Hen
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, as as wrote:
> thanks much.
> sample code by any cance?
> Thank you!
>
> ~~Sam
>
> Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> BeanUtils' BeanComparator is a useful way to do the sorting by the way,
> and will be in your classpath if you're using Struts [depending on
> version].
>
> Also ReverseComparator in Commons Collections. Between them you can write
> a nice abstract table sorting system.
>
> Hen
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, as as wrote:
>
> > Wendy,
> >
> > Thanks for the quick reply.
> > books is a session attribute (request.setParameter("books",books)
> > I retrieve books from database - Book.java
> > so books is a "List" object.
> > Will try your approach and post back the results
> > Thanks,
> > Sam~~
> >
> >
> > Wendy Smoak wrote:
> > Sam wrote:
> > > Any clues on best easy ways to do table column sorting
> > > my rows in the table are generated as follows using
> > > as below.
> >
> > I do it on the server side, holding the items to be sorted in a Map and
> > creating a new Map passing a Comparator to the constructor to get the
> > new order. Then when you're back on the JSP iterating over it, the
> > items are in the "correct" order.
> >
> > Map accountMap = (Map) session.getAttribute( "accountMap" );
> > Map newMap = new TreeMap( new CostCenterComparator() );
> > newMap.putAll( accountMap );
> > session.setAttribute( "accountMap", newMap );
> >
> > [Comments welcome, I'm not sure this is the best way to do it, but it
> > works...]
> >
> > What type of Collection is 'books' in your example?
> >
> > --
> > Wendy Smoak
> > Application Systems Analyst, Sr.
> > ASU IA Information Resources Management
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