"start" parameter

Hi I need to ask a question about the start parameter. I made a previous post awhile back about it but I am still unclear how to use it. I wanted to diplay 10 records per page, if it exceeded that it it would display it on another page with a link to it. I view the source on the devshed forum that used start parameter:

href="http://forums.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=45&start=30&range=15"><B>3</B></A>&nbsp;<A
href="http://forums.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=45&start=45&range=15"><B>4</B></A>&nbsp;<A
href="http://forums.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=45&start=60&range=15"><B>5</B></A>&nbsp;<A
href="http://forums.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=45&start=75&range=15"><B>6</B></A>&nbsp;<A
href="http://forums.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=45&start=90&range=15"><B>7</B></A>

1. is the above code all I need to accomplish this?
2. what does forum=45&amp refer to?
3. would forum.jsp be an blank page(no code) to display the remaining records
4.I have a page(portion of code)
while(rs.next())
{
String cisy1212=rs.getString("cisy1212");
String cisy2311=rs.getString("cisy2311");
String cisy2313=rs.getString("cisy2313");
String cisy2314=rs.getString("cisy2314");
String cisy2315=rs.getString("cisy2315");


%>
<tr bgcolor="#efefef">
<td width="8%" height="18"><%= rs.getString("recdate")%></td>
<td width="10%" height="18"><%= rs.getString("studentid")%>
<input type="hidden" name="studentid" value="<%= rs.getString("studentid")%>"></td>
<td width="11%" height="18"><%=rs.getString("firstname")%>
<%=rs.getString("lastname")%></td>
<td width="15%" height="18"><a href="mailto:<%=rs.getString("email")%>"><%=rs.getString("email")%></a></td>
<td width="13%" height="18"> <%
if((cisy1212!=null) || (cisy2311 !=null) ||(cisy2313!=null) ||(cisy2314!=null) ||(cisy2315!=null))
%> <%=cisy1212%>,<%=cisy2311%>,<%=cisy2313%>,<%=cisy2314%>,<%=cisy2315%></td>

<td width="15%" height="18"><%=rs.getString("cisy1212")%>,<%=rs.getString("cisy2311")%>,<%=rs.getString("cisy2313")%>,<%=rs.getString("cisy2314")%>,<%=rs.getString("cisy2315")%></td>
<td width="6%" height="18"><%=rs.getString("qualified")%></td>
<td width="6%" height="18"><%=rs.getString("applied")%></td>
<td width="6%" height="18"><%=rs.getString("accepted")%></td>
<td width="6%" height="18">
<input style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:\jakarta-tomcat-4\webapps\CISY2415\images\trash2.gif); WIDTH: 28px; HEIGHT: 36px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #efefef" type=submit name=delete size=14 onClick="alert('Do you want to delete the record?')">
</td>
</tr>
<p><a href="file://C:\jakarta-tomcat-4\webapps\newCISY2415\page.jsp?page=45&start=1&range=1">previous</a>

<a href="file://C:\jakarta-tomcat-4\webapps\newCISY2415\page.jsp?page=45&start=1&range=1">next</a></p>

<% } //end while()

would I put the start parameter inside the loop? do I have to use a limit function in mysql statement?

Thanx

getchoo

<A
href="http://forums.java.sun.com/forum.jsp?forum=45&start=90&range=15"><B>7</B></A>
is a simple GET request made trough a url forum=45 start=90 range=15 are the parameters passed.
So IMHO isn't a real start parameter.
You can set the start and range values dinamically in a loop to build that "prev 1 2 3 4 next" indexes. Probably forum=45 identifies a specific forum.