Creates a panel that contains a JTable that can be sorted can be sorted. - Java Swing

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Creates a panel that contains a JTable that can be sorted can be sorted.

Demo Code

/*/*from w w  w. j  av  a  2s . c  om*/
 * Copyright (C) 2005 Jeff Tassin
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
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 * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 */
import java.awt.Container;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.JViewport;
import javax.swing.table.JTableHeader;
import javax.swing.table.TableColumn;
import javax.swing.table.TableColumnModel;
import javax.swing.table.TableModel;

public class Main{
    /**
     * Creates a panel that contains a table that can be sorted can be sorted.
     * The table is scrollable and has automatically resized subsequent columns
     * 
     * @param model
     *            the data model for the table. Don't send in a TableSorter
     *            here.
     * @param sortable
     *            if true, then we will return a table that has sortable
     *            columns. This will wrap the tablemodel with a TableSorter.
     * @return a container that contains the table.
     */
    public static JTable createBasicTablePanel(TableModel model,
            boolean sortable) {
        JTable table = null;
        if (sortable) {
            TableSorter sorter = new TableSorter(model);
            table = new JTable(sorter);
            initializeTableSorter(sorter, table);
        } else {
            table = new JTable(model);
        }

        table.setCellSelectionEnabled(true);
        return table;
    }
    /**
     * Initializes a table and a table sorter
     */
    public static void initializeTableSorter(TableSorter sorter,
            JTable table) {
        sorter.addMouseListenerToHeaderInTable(table);

        // set the renderer for each column
        TableColumnModel columnmodel = table.getColumnModel();
        int count = columnmodel.getColumnCount();
        for (int index = 0; index < count; index++) {
            TableColumn column = columnmodel.getColumn(index);
            column.setHeaderRenderer(new SortedColumnHeaderRenderer());
        }
    }
}

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