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Question

Hello , Can anyone please give me a hint on how to use the ResultSet to populate the JTable from the database , I have my ResultSet ready but I'm confused about how to use it , do I have to create a String Array to hold each row , and another to hold the column names , or are there special methods in the ResultSet Class that I can use ?
I created an inner class to be the Table Model for my MyTable class , but here the IDE underlines the columnName,rset variables in the methods ( getColumnCount() , getRowCount() ...) saying : "Cannot find symbol" ...Why so?
class MyTableModel extends AbstractTableModel {
public MyTableModel(){
    String columnName;
    ResultSet rset = MyTable.useConnAndGetData();
    try
         ResultSetMetaData rsmd = rset.getMetaData();
         int numColumns = rsmd.getColumnCount();
        // Get the column names; column indices start from 1
        for (int i=1; i<numColumns+1; i++) {
            columnName = rsmd.getColumnName(i);
            // Get the name of the column's table name
            //String tableName = rsmd.getTableName(i);
    catch (SQLException e)
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        public int getColumnCount() {
            return columnName.getMetaData();
        public int getRowCount() {
            return rset.getFetchSize();
        public String getColumnName(int col) {    // confused about this..
            return columnName[col];
        public Object getValueAt(int row, int col) {
            return rset[row][col];
}Thanks...

Answer 1

Okay , I got the answer from another thread , but now when I run this code the IDE says "running" and nothing is happening , no excpetions thrown or anything ,
the progress bar just keeps on going , Why is that happening ?
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel;
public class MyTable extends JPanel {
public MyTable()
final ResultSetTableModel model = new ResultSetTableModel();
JTable myTable = new JTable(model);
myTable.setPreferredScrollableViewportSize(new Dimension(500, 70));
myTable.setFillsViewportHeight(true);
JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(myTable);
JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
mainPanel.add(pane);
mainPanel.setOpaque(true);
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("My Table Demo");
    frame.setSize(400, 500);
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
   // frame.setContentPane(new MyTable());
    frame.pack();
    frame.add(mainPanel);
    try
    model.setResultSet(useConnAndGetData());
    catch(SQLException e)
    e.getMessage();
  private static Connection getConnection()
    Connection con = null;
     try
        String driverName = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver";
        Class.forName(driverName);   //registering JDBC Driver
        String serverName = "localhost";
        String portNumber = "1521";
        String sid = "mydb";
        String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@" + serverName + ":" + portNumber + ":" + sid;
        String user = "fundinfo";
        String pw = "tadapps";
        con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, pw);
     catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                                    System.out.println(e.getMessage());
                                    System.exit(0);
     catch (SQLException e) {
                              System.out.println(e.getMessage());
                              System.exit(0);
    return con;
    public static ResultSet useConnAndGetData()
        Connection con = getConnection();
    try
         Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
         String select = "select title,year,price from movie order by year";
         ResultSet rows = stmt.executeQuery(select);
         return rows;
    catch(SQLException e) {
             System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        return null;
    public static void main (String[] args)
                try
                  new MyTable().setVisible(true);
                catch (Exception ex)
                    System.err.println(ex.getMessage());
                    ex.printStackTrace();
class ResultSetTableModel extends AbstractTableModel {
    // Currently displayed result set
    private ResultSet rs;
    // Associated metadata
    private ResultSetMetaData rsMeta;
    // Column count
    private int columnCount;
    // Column nmaes
    private final Vector<String> columnNames = new Vector<String>();
    // Vector of rows
    private final Vector<Object[]> cache = new Vector<Object[]>();
    /** Set new result set */
    public void setResultSet(ResultSet rs)
            throws SQLException
        if (this.rs != null)
            this.rs.close();
        cache.clear();
        // 'Cache' some metadata data
        rsMeta = rs.getMetaData();
        columnCount = rsMeta.getColumnCount();
        columnNames.clear();
        for(int col = columnCount; col > 0; col--) {
            columnNames.add(rsMeta.getColumnName(col));
        // 'Cache' new resultest data
        while(rs.next()) {
            Object rowData[] = new Object[columnCount];
            for(int col = columnCount; col > 0; col--)
                rowData[col - 1] = rs.getObject(col);
            cache.add(rowData);
        // Reload table structure
        fireTableStructureChanged();
    /** Close result set */
    public void close() throws SQLException {
        rs.close();
    /** ## TableModel interface ## */
    public String getColumnName(int column) {
        return columnNames.get(column);
    /** ## TableModel interface ## */
    public Object getValueAt(int rowIndex, int columnIndex) {
        Object[] row = cache.get(rowIndex);
        return row[columnIndex];
    /** ## TableModel interface ## */
    public int getRowCount() {
        return cache.size();
    /** ## TableModel interface ## */
    public int getColumnCount() {
        return columnCount;
}