I would advise you to use AJAX. Here is a good article that details different scenarios for its use: [^] Good luck - rastaquere AATT gmail

You should use AJAX to call data from your database. Javascript to trigger the call to a servlet that talks to your DB. If you don't have too much data it will be fast enough as is. If you havea large database and it's too slow, you can use an external DB indexing server of some sort. Example: [^] Good luck, Dan - rastaquere AATT gmail DOOTT com

Databases are just as slow as XML. Especially for large data sets. See here: http://www.exorbyte.com/images/download/WP_Incremental_Search_Revisited.pdf[^]

I agree 100% with that approach as explained here: http://www.exorbyte.com/images/download/WP_Incremental_Search_Revisited.pdf[^]

The solution is to use an external indexing server as described here for instance: see here[^] Page 11 has a nice system chart... It will speed thinks up and make it possible to automate the data updates between the database and the data used by your AJAX servlet. Does this help? Let me know if you need help. Dan - rastaquere AATT gmail DOTT com

You may want to look this up: [^] Goofd luck Dan - rastaquere AATT gmail doott COM

This pretty easy. It all depends on the following: How much data are you searching? What behavior do you want? (search every char stroke, spellchecking, etc.) You might find this white paper helpful because it details a number of these types of interfaces: exorbyte white paper[^] Whether you use c#.net, AJAX or something else, you will need to consider more details. Let me know if you need more help. Dan - rastaquere AATT gmail DDOOTTT com