Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello,

I am trying to find a way to display records from a dataTable side by side
instead of one record per row (line). Following is a section of my datatable:

<h:dataTable id="items" value="#{itemController.items}" var="item"
rowClasses="oddRow, evenRow" 	headerClass="tableHeader">
		
<!--  Item ID -->
<h:column>
 <f:facet name="header">
 <h:panelGroup>
  <h:outputText value="Item ID"/>
 </h:panelGroup>  
 </f:facet>

 <h:commandLink action="#{itemController.subItemsDirector}">
  <h:outputText value="#{item.itemId}"/>
 </h:commandLink>
</h:column>
						

Basically, what I am looking to do is to display three records in a row as in the following:

A B C
D E F
........
X Y Z

I would appreciate if someone could point me towards the solution.

I know that the above might be possible to achieve in the JSF 1.2, by using c:forEach tag, however, I am trying to stick with the JSF 1.1 for now.

Thank you for your time,

Rauf