TableModels as datasources
In many client-side applications, data is displayed in tabular format. A common requirement in many applications is to allow the user to print this tabular format as a report.
JasperReports provides an implementation of the JRDataSource interface that makes the task of generating reports from tabular format trivial for Swing applications. The class in question is net.sf.jasperreports.engine.data.JRTableModelDataSource. This class takes a javax.swing.table.TableModel as its only parameter. Because tables in Swing are populated through TableModels, all we need to do for generating a report from a table is to pass the appropriate table's TableModel as a parameter. The following example is a simple but complete Swing application ...
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