Efficient JSF Pagination

Question

Whats the most efficient way of doing pagination in JSF 2.0 app? I use Primefaces datatable and it is intelligent enough to perform pagination by itself with no coding at al

Answer 1

You need to use LazyDataModel in order to have only the rows in memory which the client actually needs to see. See also the example in PrimeFaces showcase. This does pagination at DB level which is what you ultimately want.

RichFaces supports by the way the same in flavor of ArrangableDataModel, here's the RichFaces showcase example.