Iterator - for formatting HTML Table dynamically

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Hi

I’ve a requirement where I need to build a table dynamically based on an SQL query.

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Yes, but the best way to do this is by building the table programmatically, using the jsf component apis (see http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/1.1/docs/API/overview-summary.html). Here are links to a few examples of building a table programmatically:

http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/2955.page
http://www.manning-sandbox.com/message.jspa?messageID=41514
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5238214&messageID=9978386

The one thing you have to do differently with caf views from the examples using jsp is that the jsp examples simply use a “binding” attribute on an h:dataTable jsp to connect the programmatically-built table to the rendered page. With caf views, you should put the table-building code in a method called “beforeRenderResponse” in your page bean, and connect it to the the view by looking up a component (such as a panel) in your view, and adding the new table as a child of that component. Here’s an example:

protected void beforeRenderResponse() {

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Justin,

Thanks so

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Best way is to create an IPortletURL via your page bean’s createRenderUrl() method. You can use this API to add parameters. For example, the following java code would create a portlet url, set it’s base to the alias of a page containing some other portlet, and configure the “myParam” parameter of that other portlet:

IPortletURL portletUrl = createRenderUrl();
// display some other page
portletUrl.setBaseURL(“/my.page.alias”);
// configure some other portlet
IPortletURL otherPortletUrl = url.addPortletURL(“other.portlet.alias”);
// set some parameter of the other portlet
otherPortletUrl.setParameter(“myParam”, “myValue”);

// set the value of a link control to this string:
String url = portletUrl.toString();

See “http://www.ajax-softwareag.com/articles/Y4LCDN/Caf-7-1-1JavaDocs/com/webMethods/caf/portlet/IPortletURL.html” for the IPortletURL javadocs.

Justin