My suggestion is just get the columns from the ejb. And do all formatting
in jsp.Which provides more flexibility.
Ashwani
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> From: D. J. Hagberg
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> Subject: Re: HTML from a bean?
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> A couple possibilities:
> - returning an array of Strings (or Objects with appropriate toString
> methods) works well if you know your result sets will be small and that
> the creation of a bunch of temporary objects is not a huge deal.
> - for larger or unknown-length result sets, you might consider providing
> accessor methods so that the .jsp page can simply get the
> java.sql.ResultSet, though you will need to wrap things in a try/finally
> block inside the .jsp to ensure the underlying Statement is close()'d
> before you return.
> - As an alternative to providing direct access to the ResultSet, which
> can be ugly for .jsp artist-types to program, you could wrap the
> ResultSet with a kinder/gentler type of enumerated interface. Same
> problem with needing a try/finally block in the .jsp page to close
> things up.
>
> -=- D. J.
>
> John Parrish wrote:
> > What is the preferred method of generating HTML back to a JSP page from
> a
> > bean? I was thinking about possibly returning a String array containing
> > lines to be outputted and having JSP code loop and print. My scenario
> would
> > be a bean that executes an SQL query and generates and HTML table with
> the
> > results. I am very new to JSP so if I need prodding in a different
> > direction, by all means prod! :) Regards
>
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