Displaying simple read-only tabular data

[Julien Martin]

Hello,

I am relatively new to JSF and I am stuck on a basic problem. I want a jsp page to diplay simple read-only tabular data. I just want the index.jsp page to retrieve data from a bean without going through an action nor to have any navigation rule associated to it.

I want the jsp to be roughly as follows (using the forEach tag):

<c:forEach items="${AlbumsAction.myList}" var="item">
<c :-o	 ut value="${item}"/>
</c:forEach>

My bean would be roughly as follows:

package com.pedrolo.adriana.albums;
 
public class AlbumsAction {
 
private List myList;


public List getMyList() {
myList = new ArrayList();
myList.add("toto");
myList.add("titi");
return myList;
}
 
public void setMyList(List myList) {
this.myList = myList;
}
}

In addition I have the following in the DD:

<managed-bean>
<managed-bean-name>AlbumsAction</managed-bean-name>
<managed-bean-class>com.pedrolo.adriana.albums.AlbumsAction</managed-bean-class>
<managed-bean-scope>request</managed-bean-scope>
</managed-bean>

This does not seem to work. Can anyone help please??

Thanks in advance,

Julien.

[Gregg Bolinger]

Why are you using JSTL in your JSP? You should be using JSF tags like a dataTable.

[Julien Martin]

Do you know of any jsf tag that support lists instead of tables. What's more I forgot to mention that I want to display a HashMap and not a list. Is this still possible??
Any help welcome,
Julien.

[Kurt Boets]

You can use DataList from myfaces.