How do I display a message if a jsf datatable is empty?

Question

Using JSF1.2, if my datatable binding returns no rows I want to display a message saying so.

How do I do that?

And for extra points - how do I hide the tabl

Answer 1

You can test this in several ways, for example by having a function in a bean that tests the list size:

function boolean isEmpty() {
    return myList.isEmpty();
}

then in the JSF pages :

...