Originally posted by Ashish Sarin:
Still I would like to first know whether such a component is there or not or I need to write one for use in my JSF based application.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
Originally posted by Tim Holloway:
[QB]Re: client-side sorting in JavaScript. The flaw with that concept here is that Ashish used the word "large". Now admittedly, my eyes begin to water when I'm about 8 pages into a multi-page data display, but sometimes you want to at least present the option (for example, Google search results).
Originally posted by Ashish Sarin:
What concerns me is how sorting can be addressed ? The sorting on a column should ideally result in query being re-fired to get the dataset sorted, not just the rows that were initialled loaded in the memory.