Dynamically reordering columns in ADF Faces Table

The Rich UI components (see ADF Faces Rich Client Components - Marrying JSF and AJAX together) that the ADF Faces library will contain with the JDeveloper 11g release - and hopefully before that moment - will allow end-users to do all sorts of manipulations with Tables. They will be able to resize columns an drag & drop columns to change the order - much like you can do in Spreadsheet applications like Excel. However, those components are not yet available to us. Yesterday my customer asked me if he could have offer the option to re-order columns in a table to his end users. That means that in any table component, the user can decide which column should be displayed first, which one second and which one last. It happened to be the same customer who was after the feature to show/hide columns at run-time, a challenge easily resolved in a previous article: Having the end-user hide and display columns in a JSF Table Component (http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1331).
I have written an article that shows how we can implement this feature: have the end-user specify the order of the columns in the table. I have used ADF Faces for this demonstration, but any JSF implementation will do. See: http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1334 for the article.
best regards,
Lucas

Well issue is that
I have a list of values that can be chnaged any time during application execution sya its list of Fav Fruits..
and in an other page i need a data table having these fruits as coulmns and their details as rows...
how to achieve this..
we can not guess the number of columns before time.. so can make the estimate and hide them.

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Well issue is that
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and in an other page i need a data table having these fruits as coulmns and their details as rows...
how to achieve this..
we can not guess the number of columns before time.. so can make the estimate and hide them.

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