DnD from JTree to JTable

Hi guys,
It seems JTree DnD support is a quit difficult feature to implement of all swing components.
I'm writing an application in which I have a JTree structure representing the file system of user machine and another JTable component at the right.
I want to be able to drag files nodes from left JTree to right JTable.
I would appreciate a lot if someone share with me some source code examples for this functionality.
can someone post some basic java code to get me started or point me to some web resource discussing this feature?
thanks much.

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=296255Thank you. I already looked at this thread but it's not what i'm looking for: it shows dnd from a JTree to another JTree..however i need to implement dnd from JTree to JTable.
Is there some basic example on how to do that ?
thanks.

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if (old == rowCount) {
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dataVector.setSize(rowCount);
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fireTableRowsDeleted(rowCount, old-1);
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justifyRows(old, rowCount);
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* than the current size, new rows are added to the end of the model
* If the new size is less than the current size, all
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* Notification of the row being added will be generated.
* @param rowData optional data of the row being added
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* Notification of the row being added will be generated.
* @param rowData optional data of the row being added
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* will contain <code>null</code> values unless <code>rowData</code>
* is specified. Notification of the row being added will be generated.
* @param row the row index of the row to be inserted
* @param rowData optional data of the row being added
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dataVector.insertElementAt(rowData, row);
justifyRows(row, row+1);
fireTableRowsInserted(row, row);
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* will contain <code>null</code> values unless <code>rowData</code>
* is specified. Notification of the row being added will be generated.
* @param row the row index of the row to be inserted
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* If the number of <code>newIdentifier</code>s is less than the current
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* If the number of <code>newIdentifier</code>s is less than the current
* number of columns, all the extra columns at the end of a row are
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* than the current size, new columns are added to the end of the model
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* will send a
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addColumn(columnName, (Vector)null);
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* identifier <code>columnName</code>, which may be null.
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* the column is filled with <code>null</code> values. Otherwise,
* the new data will be added to model starting with the first
* element going to row 0, etc. This method will send a
* <code>tableChanged</code> notification message to all the listeners.
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* @param columnData optional data of the column being added
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dataVector.setSize(columnSize);
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* identifier <code>columnName</code>. <code>columnData</code> is the
* optional array of data for the column. If it is <code>null</code>
* the column is filled with <code>null</code> values. Otherwise,
* the new data will be added to model starting with the first
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* @param row the row whose value is to be queried
* @param column the column whose value is to be queried
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* @param column the column whose value is to be queried
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* <code>row</code>. <code>aValue</code> is the new value. This method
* will generate a <code>tableChanged</code> notification.
* @param aValue the new value; this can be null
* @param row the row whose value is to be changed
* @param column the column whose value is to be changed
* @exception ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if an invalid row or
* column was given
public void setValueAt(Object aValue, int row, int column) {
Vector rowVector = (Vector)dataVector.elementAt(row);
rowVector.setElementAt(aValue, column);
fireTableCellUpdated(row, column);
// Protected Methods
* Returns a vector that contains the same objects as the array.
* @param anArray the array to be converted
* @return the new vector; if <code>anArray</code> is <code>null</code>,
* returns <code>null</code>
protected static Vector convertToVector(Object[] anArray) {
if (anArray == null) {
return null;
Vector v = new Vector(anArray.length);
for (int i=0; i < anArray.length; i++) {
v.addElement(anArray[i]);
return v;
* Returns a vector of vectors that contains the same objects as the array.
* @param anArray the double array to be converted
* @return the new vector of vectors; if <code>anArray</code> is
* <code>null</code>, returns <code>null</code>
protected static Vector convertToVector(Object[][] anArray) {
if (anArray == null) {
return null;
Vector v = new Vector(anArray.length);
for (int i=0; i < anArray.length; i++) {
v.addElement(convertToVector(anArray[i]));
return v;

DND in the same JTable (rows)

Hi,
First, sorry for my english, I come from Montral, Quebec, so my mothertongue is French! But I feel good to read in English.
I my project, I have to implement Drag n drop in the same JTable, that contain just String elements (In fact, my JTable works like a ListView in C).
It seems like my JTable can be a Drag Source or a Drop destination, but not both for the same dnd operation. I would like to select some rows(not columns) and change the index of those rows with a drag n drop operation.
Is it possible?
thk
Simon

Hi,
It is possible to drag n drop the Objects within the table. The following sample code deals with single transfer and interchange the data between the rows. Pls. use the MultipleTransfer for multiple Object Drag n drop.
public class TableDND extends JTable implements DropTargetListener,DragSourceListener, DragGestureListener {
//JTable methods
//DND methods
private int mRow; // remember the row where the drag Started
private int mColumn; // remember the Column where the drag Started
private Object mDataToSet; // remember the data where the drag Started
public void dragDropEnd(DragSourceDropEvent dsde) {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
((DefaultTableModel)getModel()).setValueAt(mDataToSet,mRow,mColumn);
public void dragGestureRecognized(DragGestureEvent dge) {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
Point pt = dge.getDragOrigin();
mRow = rowAtPoint(pt);
mColumn = columnAtPoint(pt);
Object obj = getValueAt(mRow,mColumn);
StringSelection transferData = new StringSelection(obj.toString());
mDragSource.startDrag(dge,DragSource.DefaultMoveDrop,transferData, this);
public void drop(DropTargetDropEvent dtde) {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
try {
Point p = dtde.getLocation();
int row = rowAtPoint(p);
int column = columnAtPoint(p);
mDataToSet = getValueAt(row,column);
               Transferable transferData = dtde.getTransferable();
               Object data = transferData.getTransferData(DataFlavor.stringFlavor);
((DefaultTableModel)getModel()).setValueAt(data,row, column);
          } catch (Exception e) {
Have a nice time.
regards
Kamal
Hi,
First, sorry for my english, I come from Montral,
Quebec, so my mothertongue is French! But I feel good
to read in English.
I my project, I have to implement Drag n drop in the
same JTable, that contain just String elements (In
fact, my JTable works like a ListView in C).
It seems like my JTable can be a Drag Source or a Drop
destination, but not both for the same dnd operation.
I would like to select some rows(not columns) and
change the index of those rows with a drag n drop
operation.
Is it possible?
thk
Simon

DnD with JTree

Hi All,
I am creating two JTree ojects and registering it for DnD by calling method setDragEnabled(true). I created Class that extends from TransferHandler which contains all the required method including importData(). I have also created class for Transferable. But when i try to perform drag from one tree and drop it on another tree it is not working, but if I do it on the same tree it is working fine which I don't want to do. Here are the code snippets that create tree object and initialization.
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
JTree onTree = new JTree(new Vector());
onTree.setCellRenderer(new MyTreeCellRenderer());
onTree.setShowsRootHandles(true);
transferHandler1 = new MyTransferHandler();
onTree.setTransferHandler(transferHandler1);
onTree.setDragEnabled(true);
MyObjectJB myObj = (MyObjectJB) createData();
AdPlanningTreeNode root = new AdPlanningTreeNode(spot);
AdPlanningTreeNode spotNode = constructSubTree(root, spot);
JTree offTree = new JTree(root);
offTree.setCellRenderer(new DisplayTreeCellRenderer());
offTree.setShowsRootHandles(true);
transferHandler2 = new DisplayTransferHandler();
offTree.setTransferHandler(transferHandler2);
offTree.setDragEnabled(true);
AdPlanningJScrollPane offScroller = new AdPlanningJScrollPane(offTree);
AdPlanningJScrollPane onScroller = new AdPlanningJScrollPane(onTree);
panel.add(offScroller);
panel.add(onScroller);Here is code in importData() method of MyTransferHandler.
public boolean importData(JComponent comp, Transferable t) {
boolean isImported = false;
try {
     if (!canImport(comp, t.getTransferDataFlavors())) {
          System.out.println("MyTransferHandler.importData ; can not import");
          return false;
     JTree targetTree = (JTree) comp;
     TreePath parentPath = targetTree.getSelectionPath();
     MyTreeNode parentNode = null;
     DefaultTreeModel model = (DefaultTreeModel) targetTree.getModel();
     MyObject item = (MyObject) DeepCopyUtil.createDeepCopy(t.getTransferData(SUPPORTED_FLAVORS));
     MyTreeNode node = new MyTreeNode((MyObjectJB) item);
     if (parentPath == null) {
          model.setRoot(node);
          targetTree.setSelectionRow(0);
          targetTree.repaint();
     else {
          parentNode = (MyTreeNode) parentPath.getLastPathComponent();
          model.insertNodeInto(node, parentNode, 0);
     isImported = true;
catch (UnsupportedFlavorException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
     return false;
catch (IOException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
     return false;
catch (Exception e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
     return false;
System.out.println("DisplayTransferHandler.importData completed");
return isImported;
One important thing is after dragging and importData method calls
model.setRoot(node), then model is showing change in data but not reflected in Tree.

Following link may help you understand: http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=9196

From Database into JTable

Hi!
I have a ResultSet from a database query (select * from table) and I plan to turn it into a Object[][] in order to satisfy one of the DefaultTableModel's constructor ("DefaultTableModel(Object[][] data, Object[] columnNames)") and place it in a JTable - how do I go about in doing this.
I tried this:
myJTable.setModel(new DefaultTableModel(getData(rs),columnNames));
private Object getData(ResultSet rs){
java.util.ArrayList<Object[]> mySets = new java.util.ArrayList<Object[]>();
try{
while(rs.next()){
Object[] row = {
rs.getString("column1"), rs.getString("column2"), new Boolean(false)
ResultSets.add(row);
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
return mySets;
But got this error when I compiled:
cannot find symbol
symbol : constructor DefaultTableModel(java.lang.Object,java.lang.String[])
location: class javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel
new DefaultTableModel(
1 error
BUILD FAILED (total time: 0 seconds)
I'm trying to do this because I would want to have my JTable to have a checkbox in it like what's shown in the Java tutorial's SimpleTableDemo.java.
Basically, am getting data directly from the database - those that are set to 1 is enabled and 0 to disabled, then represent those as check boxes in the JTable.
Thank you so much for your help!

Thanks calvino_ind!
I've managed to get your suggestion to work:
 while(rs.next()){
 for(int i = 0; i < row; i++){
 for(int j = 0; j < col; j++){
 obj[i][j] = rs.getObject(j+1);
 rs.next();
 }Issues:
I had to define the number of rows in order to initialize the Object's size:
 Object[][] obj = new Object[number of rows][number of columns];*column size can be retrieved from what's shown in previous post.
To get the number of rows I had to do this:
 while(rs.next()){ row++; }But in doing so, the cursor moves to the last row of the ResultSet. To move it back I had to execute this:
 rs.beforeFirst();Here's the whole section of the code that's been my concern:
 private Object[][] getData(ResultSet rs){
 Object[][] obj = null;
 int row = 0;
 int col = 0;
 ResultSetMetaData rsmd;
 try{
 rsmd = rs.getMetaData();
 while(rs.next()){ row++; }
 System.out.println(rs.getFetchSize());
 col = rsmd.getColumnCount();
 obj = new Object[row][col];
 rs.beforeFirst();
 while(rs.next()){
 for(int i = 0; i < row; i++){
 for(int j = 0; j < col; j++){
 obj[i][j] = rs.getObject(j+1);
 rs.next();
 }catch(Exception e){
 e.printStackTrace();
 return obj;
 }Now I did a little bit of fiddling around the forums, and came across a discussion that's it's not advisable to get the row count (second post of this link: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=683676&messageID=3982010).
Anyone care to shed some more light into this?
Thanks!

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hi,
Thanks for ur link. but this is just a part of my application which i am developing user interface in swing package for which i want to know how to show data to user in the table format where by table input data will be from the database. say something like todays activity is shown to the user in table format... So u have any idea of how to do this...

Remove white space nodes from jtree

I am trying to create jtree using XML DOM.
But I m not able to remove/ignore the white space elements from DOM.
I am getting output something like this
for example
Server
Text
node1
Text
I want something like this.
Server
node1
I tried all option for removeing the white space
Here I am posting the source
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
// Basic GUI components
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTree;
// GUI components for right-hand side
import javax.swing.JSplitPane;
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
// GUI support classes
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
// For creating borders
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
import javax.swing.border.BevelBorder;
import javax.swing.border.CompoundBorder;
// For creating a TreeModel
import javax.swing.tree.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.util.*;
public class DomEcho02 extends JPanel
// Global value so it can be ref'd by the tree-adapter
static Document document;
static final int windowHeight = 460;
static final int leftWidth = 300;
static final int rightWidth = 340;
static final int windowWidth = leftWidth + rightWidth;
public DomEcho02()
// Make a nice border
EmptyBorder eb = new EmptyBorder(5,5,5,5);
BevelBorder bb = new BevelBorder(BevelBorder.LOWERED);
CompoundBorder cb = new CompoundBorder(eb,bb);
this.setBorder(new CompoundBorder(cb,eb));
// Set up the tree
JTree tree = new JTree(new DomToTreeModelAdapter());
// Iterate over the tree and make nodes visible
// (Otherwise, the tree shows up fully collapsed)
//TreePath nodePath = ???;
// tree.expandPath(nodePath);
// Build left-side view
JScrollPane treeView = new JScrollPane(tree);
treeView.setPreferredSize(
new Dimension( leftWidth, windowHeight ));
// Build right-side view
JEditorPane htmlPane = new JEditorPane("text/html","");
htmlPane.setEditable(false);
JScrollPane htmlView = new JScrollPane(htmlPane);
htmlView.setPreferredSize(
new Dimension( rightWidth, windowHeight ));
// Build split-pane view
JSplitPane splitPane =
new JSplitPane( JSplitPane.HORIZONTAL_SPLIT,
treeView,
htmlView );
splitPane.setContinuousLayout( true );
splitPane.setDividerLocation( leftWidth );
splitPane.setPreferredSize(
new Dimension( windowWidth + 10, windowHeight+10 ));
// Add GUI components
this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
this.add("Center", splitPane );
} // constructor
public static void main(String argv[])
if (argv.length != 1) {
System.err.println("Usage: java DomEcho filename");
System.exit(1);
DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
//factory.setValidating(true);
//factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
try {
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
document = builder.parse( new File(argv[0]) );
makeFrame();
} catch (SAXException sxe) {
// Error generated during parsing)
Exception x = sxe;
if (sxe.getException() != null)
x = sxe.getException();
x.printStackTrace();
} catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
// Parser with specified options can't be built
pce.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
// I/O error
ioe.printStackTrace();
} // main
public static void makeFrame() {
// Set up a GUI framework
JFrame frame = new JFrame("DOM Echo");
frame.addWindowListener(
new WindowAdapter() {
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {System.exit(0);}
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final DomEcho02 echoPanel =
new DomEcho02();
frame.getContentPane().add("Center", echoPanel );
frame.pack();
Dimension screenSize =
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
int w = windowWidth + 10;
int h = windowHeight + 10;
frame.setLocation(screenSize.width/3 - w/2,
screenSize.height/2 - h/2);
frame.setSize(w, h);
frame.setVisible(true);
} // makeFrame
// An array of names for DOM node-types
// (Array indexes = nodeType() values.)
static final String[] typeName = {
"none",
"Element",
"Attr",
"Text",
"CDATA",
"EntityRef",
"Entity",
"ProcInstr",
"Comment",
"Document",
"DocType",
"DocFragment",
"Notation",
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// display in the tree. It also returns children, index values,
// and child counts.
public class AdapterNode
org.w3c.dom.Node domNode;
// Construct an Adapter node from a DOM node
public AdapterNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node) {
domNode = node;
// Return a string that identifies this node in the tree
// *** Refer to table at top of org.w3c.dom.Node ***
public String toString() {
String s = typeName[domNode.getNodeType()];
String nodeName = domNode.getNodeName();
if (! nodeName.startsWith("#")) {
s += ": " + nodeName;
if (domNode.getNodeValue() != null) {
if (s.startsWith("ProcInstr"))
s += ", ";
else
s += ": ";
// Trim the value to get rid of NL's at the front
String t = domNode.getNodeValue().trim();
int x = t.indexOf("\n");
if (x >= 0) t = t.substring(0, x);
s += t;
return s;
* Return children, index, and count values
public int index(AdapterNode child) {
//System.err.println("Looking for index of " + child);
int count = childCount();
for (int i=0; i<count; i++) {
AdapterNode n = this.child(i);
if (child.domNode == n.domNode) return i;
return -1; // Should never get here.
public AdapterNode child(int searchIndex) {
//Note: JTree index is zero-based.
org.w3c.dom.Node node =
domNode.getChildNodes().item(searchIndex);
return new AdapterNode(node);
public int childCount() {
return domNode.getChildNodes().getLength();
// This adapter converts the current Document (a DOM) into
// a JTree model.
public class DomToTreeModelAdapter
implements javax.swing.tree.TreeModel
// Basic TreeModel operations
public Object getRoot() {
//System.err.println("Returning root: " +document);
return new AdapterNode(document);
public boolean isLeaf(Object aNode) {
// Determines whether the icon shows up to the left.
// Return true for any node with no children
AdapterNode node = (AdapterNode) aNode;
if (node.childCount() > 0) return false;
return true;
public int getChildCount(Object parent) {
AdapterNode node = (AdapterNode) parent;
return node.childCount();
public Object getChild(Object parent, int index) {
AdapterNode node = (AdapterNode) parent;
return node.child(index);
public int getIndexOfChild(Object parent, Object child) {
AdapterNode node = (AdapterNode) parent;
return node.index((AdapterNode) child);
public void valueForPathChanged(TreePath path, Object newValue) {
// Null. We won't be making changes in the GUI
// If we did, we would ensure the new value was really new,
// adjust the model, and then fire a TreeNodesChanged event.
* Use these methods to add and remove event listeners.
* (Needed to satisfy TreeModel interface, but not used.)
private Vector listenerList = new Vector();
public void addTreeModelListener(TreeModelListener listener) {
if ( listener != null
&& ! listenerList.contains( listener ) ) {
listenerList.addElement( listener );
public void removeTreeModelListener(TreeModelListener listener) {
if ( listener != null ) {
listenerList.removeElement( listener );
// Note: Since XML works with 1.1, this example uses Vector.
// If coding for 1.2 or later, though, I'd use this instead:
// private List listenerList = new LinkedList();
// The operations on the List are then add(), remove() and
// iteration, via:
// Iterator it = listenerList.iterator();
// while ( it.hasNext() ) {
// TreeModelListener listener = (TreeModelListener) it.next();
* Invoke these methods to inform listeners of changes.
* (Not needed for this example.)
* Methods taken from TreeModelSupport class described at
* http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/jtree/index.html
* That architecture (produced by Tom Santos and Steve Wilson)
* is more elegant. I just hacked 'em in here so they are
* immediately at hand.
public void fireTreeNodesChanged( TreeModelEvent e ) {
Enumeration listeners = listenerList.elements();
while ( listeners.hasMoreElements() ) {
TreeModelListener listener =
(TreeModelListener) listeners.nextElement();
listener.treeNodesChanged( e );
public void fireTreeNodesInserted( TreeModelEvent e ) {
Enumeration listeners = listenerList.elements();
while ( listeners.hasMoreElements() ) {
TreeModelListener listener =
(TreeModelListener) listeners.nextElement();
listener.treeNodesInserted( e );
public void fireTreeNodesRemoved( TreeModelEvent e ) {
Enumeration listeners = listenerList.elements();
while ( listeners.hasMoreElements() ) {
TreeModelListener listener =
(TreeModelListener) listeners.nextElement();
listener.treeNodesRemoved( e );
public void fireTreeStructureChanged( TreeModelEvent e ) {
Enumeration listeners = listenerList.elements();
while ( listeners.hasMoreElements() ) {
TreeModelListener listener =
(TreeModelListener) listeners.nextElement();
listener.treeStructureChanged( e );
}

DocumentBuilderFactory can be configured to ignore white space.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilderFactory.html#setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(boolean)

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I want to remove a node from a JTree but the node may or maynot be visible.
My method takes a String which is the name of the node.
The nodes im using are DefaultMutableTreeNode
This is my code so far but it doesnt work.
public void removePerson(String pName)
          TreePath node = tree.getNextMatch(pName,0,Position.Bias.Forward);
          tree.expandPath(node);
          tree.removeSelectionPath(node);
}Any Suggestions or ways which i could achive this?
Thank you,

I don't think removeSelectionPath is what you want to use.
These should help:
[http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/tree/DefaultTreeModel.html#removeNodeFromParent(javax.swing.tree.MutableTreeNode)|http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/tree/DefaultTreeModel.html#removeNodeFromParent(javax.swing.tree.MutableTreeNode)]
[http://www.roseindia.net/java/example/java/swing/RemoveNodes.shtml|http://www.roseindia.net/java/example/java/swing/RemoveNodes.shtml]

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User,
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