You will need to use one of the extension tagset products to do that. Data scrollers aren't part of the core
JSF.
MyFaces Tomahawk provides a datatable scroller, as does RichFaces. RichFaces also has an extended datatable tag that supports some table sort and filter capabilities.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.