Clickable buttons in jtable

Hi All,
I'm trying to add a JButton to a JTable. There are a few scripts out there that show how to transfer a mouse event from jtable to a button that is placed in its cell. I've added to it a response to mousemoved method to highlight a button when the mouse is over the cell with the button. Unfortunately I have not seen a script that shows the "standard" response of the button as it works on standard jpanels (including a display of the button being pressed down). I wonder are those scripts out there and I missed smthing.
I'm also wondering are there standard [free!!] converters from smthing like xml into jtables. may be not with all the functionality of html tables but with some of it. This would seem as a natural thing to write.
Thanx in advance

That's does not look inspiring so far. Let me rephrase the question. Is it true that I have to implement a custom jbutton that paints its pressed state to make the jbutton pressable in a jtable cell. Or I miss smthing in a standard implementation of jtable that would allow to do it w/o it.

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