Indeed, you should always acquire and close the Connection
, Statement
and ResultSet
in the shortest possible scope (preferably already inside the very same method block) and you should never pass any of them outside the DAO class. You need to map the ResultSet
to a List<Data>
wherein Data
represents each row of the table. Here s a basic example how to map a resultset:
List<Data> items = new ArrayList<Data>();
...
while (resultSet.next()) {
Data item = new Data();
item.setColumn1(resultSet.getString("column1"));
item.setColumn2(resultSet.getString("column2"));
items.add(item);
}
...
return items;
Then you can just use it in the h:dataTable
s value
attribute.
For more examples and insights you may find one or both of the following articles useful:
http://balusc.blogspot.com/2006/06/using-datatables.html
http://balusc.blogspot.com/2008/07/dao-tutorial-data-layer.html
Good luck.