Update JTable model col through header name in fast way

Question

old day, i update my JTable model through the way :
tableModel.setValueAt(aValue, rowIndex, jTable1.getColumn("HeaderName").getModelIndex());now, i am adding a feature to my table, where the user can remove column.
when user remove the column, is just the JTable GUI column being removed,. the underlining TableModel column is still there.
my new feature will broke my above code.
hence, i change my code to :
for(columnIndex=0; columnIndex<columnCount; columnIndex++) {
     String name = tableModel.getColumnName(columnIndex)
     if(name.equals("HeaderName"))
          tableModel.setValueAt(aValue, rowIndex, columnIndex)
}instead of looping through, is there any way i can retrieve the column model index in a fast way?
a way i can think off, is inherit from DefaultTableModel, and add a map member, so that it can directly map the header name to col index.
is there any better way?
thanks

Answer 1

i don't know why but the KeyListener does work fine with another application that i have also created Not a good solution. First of all the column still exists, so the user will tab from one column to your "hidden" column and wonder whats happening.
The correct solution is to remove the TableColumn from the TableColumnModel. You can still access the data in the TableModel:
table.getModel().getValueAt(...)
No need to use the convertColumnIndexToModel.