Tweaking JTable Editing

There are two client properties supported by JTable which are related to editing.

JTable.autoStartsEdit:
The value is of type Java.lang.Boolean. This property tells whether JTable should start edit when a key is types. If the value of this property is null, it defaults to Boolean.TRUE. So this feature is enabled by default in JTable.

terminateEditOnFocusLost:
The value is of type Java.lang.Boolean. This property tells whether what to do when focus goes outside of JTable. It first tries to commit the changes in editor, if can't be committed then the changes are cancelled. If the value of this property is null, it default to Boolean.FALSE. So this feature is disabled by default in JTable.

You can enable this feature as follows:

table.putClientProperty("terminateEditOnFocusLost", Boolean.TRUE);


I suggest to make this feature to be enabled for JTable.