Design Patterns Java™ Workbook

Chapter 3. Adapter

Figure 3.5. The AbstractTableModel class provides defaults for all but a few of the

methods in TableModel.

Suppose that you want to show a few rockets in a table, using a Swing user interface. As
Figure 3.6 shows, you can create a RocketTable class that adapts an array of rockets to
the interface that TableModel and AbstractTableModel expect.