Right Justify a column in a JTable

Hello,
I formatted a decimal number and want to put it into a column in a JTable. Unfortunately, the value is being left justified. How do I make the data for the column right justitified?

Thank you both for your answers. I had looked in the tutorial, but could not find the area for justifications. I did have a table model with a getColumnClass too, but didnt realize that I didnt have to use the actual data type's class to render the justification.
Looking back at the tutorial, I now find that ImageIcon is supposed to be used for centering, but this didnt work. It wiped out the data for the column I tried to use it on rather than justifying it left or right. Any ideas how to get centering to work?

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