Importing / saving data from JTable

Well, if you are using complex Object in your TableModel then the easiest way is probably to Serialize the TableModel. Problems with serializing is that the output file is rather large and the serialized file can only be read in by the same version of Java. (ie. its not portable between JDK1.4 and JDK1.5). This posting gives a simple example of using serialization:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=57&threadID=700384

If you are just saving text Strings then you could create your own simple file structure to store the data and then parse it when you load the file. Use a structure like this:

heading1|heading2|heading3|

column1|column2|column3

If you really want to solve the problem yourself then this posting was my attempt at explaining this process in a little more detail:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700031

And if you want to see the final result of suggested solution from above check out:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700456

camickra at 2007-7-13 1:41:40 >