Pagination in JDBC queries

Question

I was wondering what is the standard practice for pagination in case someone is not using an ORM ?
Use of eg limit as part of the SQL query?
Also is this problem solved by an ORM out of the box?

Answer 1

Yes, the standard practice is to limit the results using some limit clause (which is, unfortunately, non-standard and different for every database).

JPA supports that natively using the setFirstResult() and setMaxResults() methods, which are translated to the appropriate limit clause in SQL.