Using AJAX for pagination like in new Emails

[sheesh342]

Hi ,
I have a jsp page which is an out put of a lot of queries.
It displays a rows of data depending upon what was sent in the request object.
Each row comes from a combination of atleast 5-6 tables and sometimes, it takes around 4-5 minutes to load the page.
Although the users also understand the depth of this page, but I was thinking of making the UI a bit more graceful.
One option was to do pagination in the backend but since it involves a number of queries, pagination would be kinda tough.
I am using logic:iterate tag to get each of the rows.
Is there a way in AJAX, so that I can limit the number of results to five rows at a time and then by means of an arrow link I should be able to see the next 5 and so on. The static part of the page should not reload. The best part of applying AJAX as I presume would be that most of the server interaction would be unnoticed to the user.
The technoliges I am using for this screen are hibernate and struts.
And ofcourse if javascript is not enabled on the browser, it should gracefully switch to the current method.

 

[jpadie]

there's no difference between database paging with ajax and non-ajax paging. all ajax does is permit server interaction without the user seeing a page reload.