Need help on Implementing timer based JTable update events

Question

greetings,
i am writing a trap receiver that placed the entries in a jtable, and i am having a problem where the entires can arrive so fast they swamp the event thread. the solution i believe is to write a custom model that calls the table update events on timer based intervals. i have made an attempt at this, but cannot get it to work. has anyone done this, or possibly tell me where i have gon off the tracks?
thanks in advance,
here is my class:
import javax.swing.event.TableModelEvent;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;
public class TimerUpdateTableModel extends DefaultTableModel implements Runnable{
     Thread runner;
       int rowCtr = 0;
     public TimerUpdateTableModel(int initialDelay) {
         Thread runner = new Thread(this);
         runner.start();
     public void fireTableDataChanged(){
          //super.fireTableDataChanged();
     public void fireTableStructureChanged(){
          //super.fireTableStructureChanged();
     public void fireTableRowsInserted2(int firstRow,
            int lastRow){
          //super.fireTableRowsInserted(firstRow, lastRow);
     public void fireTableRowsInserted(int firstRow,
            int lastRow){
          //super.fireTableRowsInserted(firstRow, lastRow);
     public void fireTableRowsUpdated(int firstRow,
            int lastRow){
          //super.fireTableRowsUpdated(firstRow, lastRow);
     public void fireTableRowsDeleted(int firstRow,
            int lastRow){
          //super.fireTableRowsDeleted(firstRow, lastRow);
     public void fireTableCellUpdated(int row,
            int column){
          //super.fireTableCellUpdated(row, column);
     public void fireTableChanged(TableModelEvent e){
          //super.fireTableChanged(e);
     public void run() {
          while (true) {
               try{
                    rowCtr = TimerUpdateTableModel.this.getRowCount();
                    System.out.println(rowCtr + "    " + (TimerUpdateTableModel.this.getRowCount() - 1));
                    //super.fireTableRowsInserted(0, TimerUpdateTableModel.this.getRowCount() - 1);
                    //super.fireTableDataChanged();
                    int nRowCount = getRowCount();
                    super.fireTableChanged (new TableModelEvent (TimerUpdateTableModel.this, 0,
                        nRowCount - 1,
                        TableModelEvent.ALL_COLUMNS,
                        TableModelEvent.UPDATE));
               }catch(Exception e){
                    e.printStackTrace();
               try {
                    Thread.sleep(5000);
               } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
               }catch(Exception e){
                    e.printStackTrace();
               System.out.println("done");
}

Answer 1

i am having a problem where the entires can arrive so fast they swamp the event thread
super.fireTableChanged Well, if you are using the above code every time you receive an update, then I suspect you would be having problems. The fireTableChange() event is an expensive method. It means you need to recreate the TableColumnModel and repaint the entire table every time.
You should simply be using method like model.addRow(...), model.setValueAt(...) to make updates to the table.