Display tag is one of the best free open source libraries for showing data in tabular format in a J2EE application using jsp, struts, or spring. it is shipped as a tag library so you can just include this in your jsp and add the corresponding jar and their dependency in class-path and you are ready to use it. The display tag is my favorite solution for displaying any tabular data because of its inherent capability in paging and sorting. It provides great support for pagination on its own but it also allows you to implement your own pagination solution. On the Sorting front, you can sort your data based on any column, implement default sorting, etc.