14Creating the Database (Part 2)

Introduction

We have completed the basic classes for the database. We can perform a search and see the result in the form of a scrollable display. However, if we have a large number of displays, do we want to scroll all the way to the last display? To avoid that, we will introduce a “next so and so many” and “previous so and so many” system, whereby the user presses a button and can see the next row of displays. We limit the number of displays to 5, but that is completely up to the developer. We will add another feature, which is already familiar to us. We allow the user to press a button and have an XHTML page displayed that shows more details for a particular item. The third feature we will add is to allow the ...

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