Show a message if the search result is 0

Question

Hi all,
I have html jspbean , html for enter , jsp for display, bean for business.
i want to handle if the search is not match display a message. i not how to handle in servlet just is
whiler(rs.next(){
count ++
if (count<=1)
display message.
but how to deal in bean
public boolean Mysearch() {
boolean anyRecords = false;
        rowCount = 0;
        while (rs.next()) {
          fieldNumberList.add(rs.getString("FieldNumber"));
          nameList.add(rs.getString("Name"));
          hiTiterList.add(rs.getString("HiTiter"));   
          subTypeList.add(rs.getString("SubType"));
          rowCount++;
          anyRecords = true;
        }//end while
      }//end try
      catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Error populating productBean: " + e.toString());
        return false;
    }//end if
    /* Return status of operation (assume success if it made it this far) */
    return true;
  }//end function[ /code]
how can I display some message in jsp, if the match is not find?
Thank you

Answer 1

shouldn't u be returning
  return anyRecords;instead of
  return true; // after the endif????ur method name is confusing I hope this Mysearch() is a TYPO :)
now that mySearch() returns a boolean depending on whether the query returns something or else u can compare it in jsp using jstl: tags c:equal or c:choose c:when test="" etc etc or as u have done before escape into java itselt using <% // some code in here to get the value from method mySearch()%>