Java JSP forEach load more with AJAX

Question

I'm using JSP, JSTL, Servlets, jQuery, Hibernate, MySQL.
I'm a noob at ajax.

Here's the piece of code I'm dealing with:

<c:forEach var="recipe" items="${recipes}" end="9">

  content goes here

</c:forEach>

I wonder if it's possible to change the end="9" with AJAX. Or perhaps there's a better solution to this. Data comes from a DB via hibernate and selected with JPQL.