Placeholder for an empty JTable

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Code

JEditorPane hint = new JEditorPane("text/html", ">html<>a href='dummy'<No data!>/a<>/html<");

table.setFillsViewportHeight(true);
table.setLayout(new GridBagLayout());
table.add(hint);

model.addTableModelListener(new TableModelListener() {
  @Override public void tableChanged(TableModelEvent e) {
    DefaultTableModel model = (DefaultTableModel)e.getSource();
    hint.setVisible(model.getRowCount()==0);
  }
});

References

• Placeholder for an empty JTable(Japanese)