Hi Veera, I don't think that the h:datatable is a good way to solve this problem. I would use the datatable component for collections of complex objects, but to display simple strings in a table I would use the h:panelGrid tag: <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f"%> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%> ...