Displaying search results in a JTable..

Question

Hello,
I've got a stupid problem. I'm trying to have a search dialog box that returns it's results into a JTable. Seems like it should be pretty straightforward. My immediate problem is that with the following code (based on an example I found in the forums):
     Vector vColumnNames = new Vector();
     Vector vData = new Vector();
     vColumnNames.add("Company Name");
     vColumnNames.add("Contact");
     vColumnNames.add("Booth #");
     vColumnNames.add("Status");
     for (int i=0; i<4; i++)
         vData.add(new String("blah"));
     dm = new DefaultTableModel(vData, vColumnNames);
     jtResults = new JTable(dm);
     jsp = new JScrollPane(jtResults, JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS, JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
         jtResults.setSelectionMode(ListSelectionModel.SINGLE_SELECTION);It generates an java.lang.ClassCastException: java.langString exception. After some testing the part that causes this to die is adding the strings to vData. if I comment out the for loop it works fine, except with no data of course. What gives? I'm sure I'm doing something totally stupid wrong, but I don't understand why the Vector of Strings works for column names but nto for the data.
My secondary concern is: I need to be able to reuse the table for multiple searches, I think if I just update the TableModel and repaintit should be ok; also I'd like the table to appear as an empty white background when there's no data in it as well; currently the insides of the table just show up as grey when there's no data. Is there a way to fix that?
Thanks!
xanatos

Answer 1

Hmm. Nevermind, I think I figured it all out. ^_^
xanatos