Using JTable to view a database table

[Layne Lund]

I am trying to write a Swing application that accesses a database via JDBC. I found the following expcerpt in the API docs for JTable:

The "TableExample" directory in the demo area of the source distribution gives a number of complete examples of JTable usage, covering how the JTable can be used to provide an editable view of data taken from a database and how to modify the columns in the display to use specialized renderers and editors.

What is the "source distribution" this mentions? Is this a separate download from the J2SE JDK? If it is included with the standard download, where would I find the "TableExample" directory? I'm not currently at my development machine so it's difficult for me to look for it atm.

If anyone can tell me where to find this example, that would be great!

Layne

[Scott Delap]

I'd actually look into the JDNC project

https://jdnc.dev.java.net

if you want something to quickly get a view of database data in a table. Otherwise, you'll need to write some JDBC yourself and convert the results to fit into a TableModel. Searching for jdbc and JTable or TableModel should come up with some code pretty quickly.

Scott Delap
ClientJava.com
Desktop Java Live

[Premal Panchal]

Hi,

go to the following directory which is in the folder of J2SDK...means in the folder that has been created while installing j2sdk...

folder path is:<ur j2sdkfolder>\demo\jfc\TableExample

In this folder u have find one folder with SRC which contains the code...it is the "source distribution"...I hope this will help you.

Regards,

Premal Panchal

[Layne Lund]

Originally posted by Premal Panchal:
Hi,

go to the following directory which is in the folder of J2SDK...means in the folder that has been created while installing j2sdk...

folder path is:<ur j2sdkfolder>\demo\jfc\TableExample

In this folder u have find one folder with SRC which contains the code...it is the "source distribution"...I hope this will help you.

Regards,

Premal Panchal

Thanks. I found it. It's a little over my head at the moment, but I'll study it more when I have a chance. ATM, I'm working on another part of the project, so I'll get back to this soon (I hope).

Layne

[Layne Lund]

Originally posted by Scott Delap:
I'd actually look into the JDNC project

https://jdnc.dev.java.net

if you want something to quickly get a view of database data in a table. Otherwise, you'll need to write some JDBC yourself and convert the results to fit into a TableModel. Searching for jdbc and JTable or TableModel should come up with some code pretty quickly.

Scott Delap
ClientJava.com
Desktop Java Live

Okay, I'll check it out.

Thanks,

Layne