Creating a Table (not SWING or AWT)

Question

Hello Everyone,
I'm trying to come up with a design to create a table grid in pure java that will be displayed on my web page. This is a 2-dimensional table that will have rows and columns. The data for each cell is retrieved from a mySQL table.
Here's where it gets sticky. The users of my web page can enter a product number. Based on that number I'm returning a combination of sizes and colors for that product. To populate the table I need to call 3 different tables.
My first table is SIZE
My second table is COLOR
My third table is DETAILS
The DETAILS table has two fields: Color and Size. If the Color and Size field match up against the COLOR and SIZE tables then create a cell for that combination.
Here's the logic I've come up with so far:
Loop through SIZE.
Loop through COLOR.
Loop through DETAILS.
if color and size field of table DETAILS equals the size or color of the table SIZE and COLOR then create a new cell.
It should look something like this:
Hello Everyone,
I'm trying to come up with a design to create a table grid in pure java that will be displayed on my web page. This is a 2-dimensional table that will have rows and columns. The data for each cell is retrieved from a mySQL table.
Here's where it gets sticky. The users of my web page can enter a product number. Based on that number I'm returning a combination of sizes and colors for that product. To populate the table I need to call 3 different tables.
My first table is SIZE
My second table is COLOR
My third table is DETAILS
The DETAILS table has two fields: Color and Size. If the Color and Size field match up against the COLOR and SIZE tables then create a cell for that combination.
Here's the logic I've come up with so far:
Loop through SIZE.
Loop through COLOR.
Loop through DETAILS.
if color and size field of table DETAILS equals the size or color of the table SIZE and COLOR then create a new cell.
It should look something like this:
� ����������� Small Medium Large
Black | � � ok � � ok � ��� <blank>
Blue � | � � ok � � <blank> � � ok
Red � | � � ok � � <blank>��<blank>
I created 3 different Java classes. The classes are Table, Row, Cell. The Table class has a bean setter/getter array: private Row[] rowDetails; The Row class has setter/getter details about each individual cell: private Cell[] sizes; The Cell class holds the details like quantityAvailable. I'm struggling with this one on the logic and how to loop through each element.
I think this is the right approach but I'm not sure. I was hoping that someone can help me out with the logic.
Thank you!!

Answer 1

Sorry, the formatting for the table came out pooly.
The headers are the size and on the left side it should be the color. an OK means that a combination exists and a <blank> means that there's no such combination. In that case I should skip over the cell and proceed to the next one.
Small Medium Large
Black | ok ok <blank>
Blue | ok <blank> ok
Red | ok ok ok