Datatable in Spring MVC

Question

While we are performing data binding, in JSF we have the ability to process data in a table with a style.

Is there any datatable type function in spring MVC? I am using JSTL forEach as usual. But if there is any function of type datatable (in JSF), we can easily manage it, including the CSS style.

Answer 1

There is nothing specific for Spring MVC - in fact, it does not provide any user interface components, see Spring MVC and UI Components

In the past, I ended up using JSP tag libraries or JavaScript libraries.

You might want to check out Show Tag (JSP) or the jQuery Datatables Plugin (JavaScript). With Display Tag, I often ended up writing some utility classes for abstracting and handling paging / sorting in a controller.

Answer 2

I would recommend datatables4j (based on jQuery DataTables ), it works fine with Spring MVC.

see also

• https://github.com/datatables4j
• Spring MVC integration with jQuery, Bootstrap, DataTables4J and webjars

Answer 3

I have included Spring MVC, Hibernate, and DataTables in several projects. I wrote howto for Spring Roo , but it can be easily applied to regular Spring MVC applications and with any JPA implementation.

There is also a link to the entire project on github .