I very much doubt that. The reason why rendering large tables is slow in JSF is the building of the component tree. Regards Felix View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4084717#4084717 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4084717