it is only trivial if the queries can contain some ordered id (primary key, or date) and you do not want sorting based on e.g. taskname. It is not to difficult then to keep the last ID, or date and do a findTaskInstances(lastid, numberofrows) or something provided databases/hibernate support this. Getting the jsf datatable to use this is also not difficult. All other cases are not trivial. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3957240#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...