Java Swing table tree

Question

When you open a XML in Eclipse, the content can be shown in as a tree structure like

The tree is "embedded" in a table and the content is showed in a seperate column.

This would be very nice to replicate in Swing, not for XML content specifically, but for similar data with tree structure.

UPDATE

I just learned about JTreeTable, but I really need to do this in NetNeans. Should probably have mentioned that, sorry.

Any ideas?

Avigation

What do you mean by "do it in Netbeans"? Do you need to use the component in a GUI designer? – Nika

@Nika - Yes, It's for work. – Avigation

Answer 1

SwingX has a JXTreeTable, it's based on but much improved over the oldish examples (links to sun code/article) cited by @mKorbel

Excavate

@Excavate - For NetBeans, i'm not so sure, see #5613282 – Avigation

@Theodor: repeating myself (the comment I made there) - mixing a beaninfo 0.9.7 with a swingx of 1.6 is certain to pose problems ;-) – Excavate

@Excavate - After some head scratching, JXTreeTable works beautiful. Sorry that I doubted you =) Thank you. – Avigation

Answer 2

Check the following:

• TreeTable
• This example
• Code depots by Swing Guru
• Netbeans IDE's Outline
• Something more here
• Commercial products

Program

Answer 3

You could try subclassing JTable and making your own custom renderer with behavior that adds/removes new rows when you expand/collapse a node.

Scene

-1 - you tried it? Very unlikely to get anything half-way robust by on-the-fly custom renderers, there's more issues to solve than mere visuals. Though, at it's very base, the typical J/X/TreeTable implementations do have a custom renderer for the hierarchical column :-) – Excavate

+1 I do it this way already, vary fast for large data sets. The renderer has to render the indentation and the collapse/expand icon, too. – Mac