JSF h:dataTable Example

Question

Can anyone please supply a link so that I can attempt to get working dataTable in my application.
I have found that the examples given in the J2EE 1.4 Tutorial does not work for me.
To be clear I had created a List, added a bean "Student" with a property called name
From a jsp page I did this:
            <h:form>
                <h:dataTable border="1" value="#{StudentBean.students}" >
                    <h:column>
                        <f:facet name="header" >
                            <h:outputText value="#{StudentBean.students.name}" />
                        </f:facet>
                    </h:column>
                </h:dataTable>                                              
            </h:form>
        </f:view>
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.polaris.business.logic.Student;
import org.polaris.database.DatabaseConnection;
* @author john
public class StudentBean extends DatabaseConnection {
    private List students = new ArrayList();
    /** Creates a new instance of StudentBean */
    public StudentBean() {
        Student student = new Student();
        student.setName("Doe, John");
        students.add(student);
        student.setName("Doe, Jane");
        students.add(student);       
    public List getStudents() {              
        return this.students;
    public void setStudents(List students) {
        this.students = students;
}Anyhow, I do not get a list like :
Doe, John
Doe, Jane
and I cannot figure out whhy???
Any good link would be most welcome as I have spent 2 days trying to solve this simple problem.
Thanks

Answer 1

Try as follows:<f:view>
  <h:form>
    <:dataTable border="1" value="#{StudentBean.students}"  var="line">
      <h:column>
        <h:outputText value="#{line.name}" />
      </h:column>
    </h:dataTable>                                              
  </h:form>
  <h:messages/>
</f:view>P.S. You don't need setStudents().