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A reader on JavaRanch asks:

“How do I handle Million-Records-Fetching from the database and dumping it to the GUI?”

My preferred solution is to use LiveScrolling.

This essentially creates the illusion that all the records are loaded at once in the browser, but you are loading new records incrementally as the user moves down the recordset. This can be achieved easily using XmlHttp requests. You can combine this with a technique called Predictive Fetch to smooth the experience out for the user.

One key thing to remember, particularly if you are dealing with the millions of records use case, is that you will need to start tossing away records if they are not needed anymore to avoid filling up your stack - particularly if this means holding a lot of HTML on the page.

Check this out for an example of LiveScrolling: Nitobi CompleteUI demos.