What does
MyJTable look like?
Here it is! ---------->
MyJTable is for you if:
- You find the JTable a complete pain in the neck.
- You have a sneaky admiration for the Microsoft Excel L&F.
- You're not doing anything too complicated with the table.
you?
- Excel Look & Feel
- Row and column symmetry
- Copy and paste functionality
- Cell specific selection
- Simple API (compared to the JTable)
- Table data in terms of Strings only.
- Fixed number of rows and columns
- Easy framework for adding cell editors and renderers on a per cell basis
- Strategy for dealing with user input errors
- A number of useful cell editors and renderers included for use and examples.
states, that it is better to write clear reliable software to provide a solution for 80% of any
problem domain rather than over-complicate and destabilise the software in an attempt to cover
100% of the domain.
MyJTable was written as an 80% solution. In my experience, 8 times out of 10, a Java Swing
developer will find MyJTable an improvement over the JTable. It there fore follows that there are
situations where MyJTable will not be the appropriate choice.
you if...
- You need to do very specific operations to the way the JTable looks or operates.
- If you want to add or remove columns dynamically rather than just adding and removing
data from the table. - If you need view model separation.
- If you need the data in your table to be held as non String values.
