Jtable with vertical columns

[Bin Yaqub]

I have a Jtable inside a JScrollPane which is on the second of seven tabbs of a JTabbedPane.
MY problem is that I want the table to display the columns vertically, that is to the left of the row.
I have seen tricks that give a row header. However, all I want to do is change the orientation from Horizontal to Vertical. Surely I can't be the only person to ever have wanted to do that. Apart from neccessity, there are asthetic reasons for wanting the column header to be vertical. If anybody has ANY idea of how I can achieve this I would be very gratefull.
rgds
Bin Yaqub