Extend Swing's JTable to Support Rendering of Different Cell Types in a Column
The basic JTable rendering mechanism supports a single renderer for all cells in a column. The Column Renderer may be set in the TableColumn class. If the TableColumn Renderer is null, the JTable looks up the Renderer based on the Column Class. The Column Class is then determined by the TableModel getColumnClass() method.
Both these approaches assume all values in a column are of the same type, prohibiting the rendering of cell values of different types in a column
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