Changing the Column Color in Swing

Question

I have two columns in JTable, both have objects of String. For some reasons I have to differentiate the background color of the two columns. All my tries including my overriding javax.swing.table.DefaultTableCellRenderer makes both the columns look similar as both of them have same type i.e. object of String. Is there any way to have different background for these two columns

Answer 1

class MuRenderer extends DefaultTableCellRenderer{
  public MyRenderer(){
    super();
  public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table, Object value, boolean isSelected, boolean hasFocus, int row, int column) {
    if(column == 0)
         this.setBackground(Color.red);
    else
          this.setBackground(Color.blue);
    return this;
}and when you initialize you JTable :
MyRenderer red = new MyRenderer();
Enumeration columns = table.getColumnModel().getColumns();
while(columns.hasMoreElements()){
      ((TableColumn)columns.nextElement()).setCellRenderer(red);