I'm building a WebApp in jsf 2.0 and it's about storing information and displaying it on the screen. so I've put in some http://java.sun.com/jsf/html dataTables to disply some lists. My Java code returns a List and then displays them on screen. but now I have to Sort the columns alphabetically. I believe there's no built in way of doing this, so i'm goign to have to look elsewhere for the task.

I came across This dataTables example, it's pretty awesome but I think I can't give it a List and display the list.

I also came across BalusC's way of incorporating the sorting intot he DataTbal, which is nice, I'm looking for this, but maybe with a jQuery IU.

Is there such an API that can meet my needs? can you point me in the right direction, or do you suggest one? I'd really want one that I just hand over the list in Java, but If I must, I can modify the data to comply with JSON format or some other...