Autocomplete search with Struts and Hibernate

[M Marin]

Hello everybody,

I am using for my project Struts 2 and Hibernate/Spring dependency injection. My project is just a simple CRUD application. I am trying to implement an autocomplete search of data in the database, but I am not sure which is the most appropriate approach using the above framewors(I am new to them). If anyone can point me to a working example using the framewors or give me any ideas.

Thank you.

MJ

[David Newton]

I'd use an existing implementation, like jQuery's or equivalent, rather than writing one.

Wait, ORM forum? That's a bit off. Moving.

[Richard Golebiowski]

My personal favourites are the Struts Autocompleter and the AjaxTags Autocomplete.

[David Newton]

(If you're talking about the S2 jQuery tags, okay, but if we're talking about the Dojo tags, they're deprecated, are not supported, and use a *very* old version of Dojo. I cannot recommend them.)

[Richard Golebiowski]

David, I agree with what you said. Actually, between the two I mentioned I mostly use the AjaxTags. I went with Ajaxtags because it is a technology that was currently being used where I work. For someone looking for an autocompleter there are a lot of choices out there so just do your research and pick one that your comfortable with.

[M Marin]

Thank you,
Now, I know where to start.
I will try the Struts Autocompleter first and If I get the time JQuery tags.

MJ

[Sunil Moharana]

Hi, I am sunil,completely new to coderanch and also new to java.I am working on a knowledge base project.In this project a search engine is implemented and the technologies are struts2,hibernate,jsp etc.... I want to implement autocomplete.But i am not able to do that.Please some one give tne complete steps how i 'll implement ?There is a problem table,in which problem title field is there.I want to search on problem title and autocomplete also.Please help ....

[Johannes Geppert]

Hi Sunil,

you can try this:

http://code.google.com/p/struts2-jquery/wiki/AutocompleterTag

Maybe this helps you out.

[Alberto Zolezzi]

this is the article i'm trying to follow:
tutorial-create-autocomplete-feature-with-java-jsp-jquery



This is how my hibernate code look like:

List<Pazienti> taList = sessionh.createQuery("from Pazienti").list();
Iterator<Pazienti> itr = taList.iterator();
while (itr.hasNext()) {
Pazienti ta = itr.next();
while (itr.hasNext()) {
String surn = ta.getPaz_cognome();
PrintStream out = null;
out.println(surn);
}
}


Unfortunately I'm getting something like this:
net.lupo.contact.model.Pazienti@9c939

how do I have to iterate on the list to retrieve a list of username like this ?

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