A JTable is a subclass of JComponent class for displaying complex data structures. A JTable component can follow the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern for displaying the data in rows and columns. A JTable can generate TableModelListener, TableColumnModelListener, ListSelectionListener, CellEditorListener, RowSorterListener interfaces. We can sort a JTable in a particular column by using the method setAutoCreateRowSorter() and set to true of JTable class.
Example
import java.awt.*; import javax.swing.*; public final class JTableSorterTest extends JFrame { private JTable table; private JScrollPane scrollPane; public JTableSorterTest() { setTitle("JTableHeaderHide Test"); String[] columnNames = {"Name", "Age", "City"}; Object[][] data = {{"Raja", "35", "Hyderabad"}, {"Adithya", "25", "Chennai"}, {"Vineet", "23", "Mumbai"}, {"Archana", "32", "Pune"}, {"Krishna", "30", "Kolkata"}}; table = new JTable(data, columnNames); scrollPane= new JScrollPane(table); table.setAutoCreateRowSorter(true); // sorting of the rows on a particular column add(scrollPane, BorderLayout.CENTER); setSize(375, 250); setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setLocationRelativeTo(null); setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { new JTableSorterTest(); } }