Java Tutorial/Intermediate GUIs/Table with sorting

The class HotelTablePanel (cvs) together with HotelTableModel (cvs), HotelTableColumnModel (cvs) and HotelTableRowSorter (cvs) composes a table with row sorting and special rendering.

HotelTableRowSorter

The class HotelTableRowSorter is merely a TableRowSorter specialized with type parameter HotelTableModel. This is not strictly necessary but has been added for convenience, one could use TableRowSorter<HotelTableModel> instead whereever HotelTableRowSorter is used and this use would even reduce the number of classes in the program.

HotelTableRowSorter extends TableRowSorter<HotelTableModel>
{
   ...
}

HotelTableColumnModel

The class HotelTableColumnModel extends DefaultTableColumnModel and contains the subclasses HotelTableHeaderRenderer and HotelTableAttributeHeaderRenderer, which are derived from DefaultTableCellRenderer. The column model contains the specification and configuration of table columns and the renderers support specialized rendering of table cells.

The function getTableCellRendererComponent in DefaultTableCellRenderer returns a component suitable for cell rendering; this component is usually the same component instance for all cells of a table and is only reconfigured to render different content for each cell, unless a column requires its own rendering.

HotelTableModel

The class HotelTableModel is derived from AbstractTableModel and provides access to the data structures used for the table in the way the Swing table classes expect.

HotelTablePanel

The class HotelTablePanel extends JPanel and provides a visual container for a JTable.

(source code from vsrs.svn.sourceforge.net)