Graeme, I was wondering if you could help I have to demonstrate tommorrow why grails is appropriate for an application to develop , the trouble i have come across is getting column names from syscolumns with a domain class and controller , which is fine but then on the same page I need the actual data for the table_name in syscolumns that a user choose. So: If a user selected a COUNTRY table as a static table I get all the column headers and display them in a list action and iterate in the list page to get all the column heading. I now need to get the data back for the first five rows for those headings and have full CRUD, any ideas?