Selectable JTable as leaf node in JTree

Question

I've created a TreeCellRenderer that renders a JTable for nodes of type TableNode. The actual rendering seems to work fine, but the problem is that I am unable to select the rows in the JTable. I tried using a JTable-based TreeCellEditor, but that wasn't what I needed either. I don't need to edit the data, but only select an individual row so I can get its data to display in another panel on the screen.
Any ideas?
private class TableTreeCellRenderer extends DefaultTreeCellRenderer {
   private JTable table = new JTable();
   private DefaultTableModel model = (DefaultTableModel) table.getModel();
   public Component getTreeCellRendererComponent(JTree tree,
                                        Object value,
                                        boolean selected,
                                        boolean expanded,
                                        boolean leaf,
                                        int row,
                                        boolean hasFocus) {
     if (value instanceof TableNode) {
           TableNode node = (TableNode) value;
        model.setDataVector(node.getData(), node.getHeaders());
        JScrollPane js = new JScrollPane(table);
        js.setPreferredSize(getTableSize(table));
        return js;
     return super.getTreeCellRendererComponent(tree,
                                                  value,
                                      selected,
                                      expanded,
                                      leaf,
                                      row,
                                      hasFocus);
   private Dimension getTableSize(JTable table) {
      return null;
}

Answer 1

A renderer isn't a component which is added to a parent (tree in this case). It is only used for display purposes. You might try a [url http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/treetable1/index.html]TreeTable.