Printing a Vector to a JTextArea

Question

I'm having major problems with my project.
I can't get the information retrieved from a database to print to a JTable even though i've looked at so many different tutorials.
I ended up printing the information to a JTextArea for now but i'm having problems printing a vector to the TextArea.
     Vector columnNames = new Vector();
                      Vector data = new Vector();
                      Vector cache;
                      cache = new Vector();
                      int columns;
                      String[] headers;
                         try {
                              Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
                              Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection (Url);
                              Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
                              ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query);
                              ResultSetMetaData md = rs.getMetaData();
                              columns = md.getColumnCount();
                              //read names of columns
                             for (int i = 1; i <= columns; i++)
                                 columnNames.addElement( md.getColumnName(i) );
                             System.err.println(columnNames);
                             String rowdatatotal = columnNames + "\n" + "\n";
                             while (rs.next())
                                  Vector row = new Vector(columns);
                                  for (int i = 1; i <= columns; i++)
                                       row.addElement( rs.getObject(i));
                                            sqloutputArea.setText (rowdatatotal + "\n");
                                  System.out.println(row);
                            }is there a way around this?
Thank you for your time

Answer 1

I have tried to use toString() by doing the following.
while (rs.next())
                                 row = new Vector(columns);
                                  for (int i = 1; i <= columns; i++)
                                       row.addElement( rs.getObject(i));
                                            sqloutputArea.setText (rowdatatotal + "\n");
                                  row.toString();
                                    sqloutputArea.setText (row);Is there an alternative to addElement but for strings?
I was wondering if i changed the vectors to Strings and substituted the addElement, it might work?