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Ahhh, the old table-doesn’t-fill-the-view problem. Nothing says “this is a Swing app” more than a JTable that only fills up part of it’s parent JViewport. Apparently this behavior was not the original behavior (as I had once thought), but was introduced, presumably as a bug, back in Java 1.2 (see this bug report). This behavior has been fixed in Java 6, though not by default - you have to call JTable.setFillsViewportHeight(true).