To setup scrollbars for individual columns in JTable

Hi,
I need to setup individual scrollbars for the
columns in JTable.
Can anybody help?
Thanks in advance.
Rgds,
sita

Hi,
I need to setup individual scrollbars for the
columns in JTable.If i understand you correctly, you want to have a scrollbar for every column. If so, you will need a new instance of JTable and JScrollPane for every column, but that's a lot of work if you want to do it fancy.
The good news, is you can reuse the table model.
You could do something like that.
for (int i= 0; i < model.getColumnCount(); i++) {
    JTable table = new JTable();
    table.setAutoCreateColumnsFromModel(false);
   //container
    someContainer.add(new ScrollPane(table), null/* or some layout constrains*/);
    TableColumn tc = new TableColumn(i, 120);
    tc.setHeaderValue(model.getColumnName(i));
    table.addColumn(tc);
Can anybody help?
Thanks in advance.
Rgds,
sita

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