How to fill data in a JTable with database?

I would recommend taking the following approach:

• Create a Row class to represent a row read from your ResultSet. This could be a simple wrapper around an Object[].
• Create a List<Row> collection, and subclass AbstractTableModel to be backed by this collection.
• Use a SwingWorker to populate your List<Row> by reading from the underlying ResultSet on a background thread (i.e. within the doInBackground() method). Call SwingWorker's publish method to publish Rows back to the Event Dispatch thread (e.g. every 100 rows).
• When the SwingWorker's process method is called with the latest chunk of Rows read, add them to your List<Row> and fire appropriate TableEvents to cause the display to update.
• Also, use the ResultSetMetaData to determine the Class of each column within the TableModel definition. This will cause them to be rendered correctly (which won't be the case if you simply use a 2D Object[][] array).

The advantage of this approach is that the UI will not lock up when processing large ResultSets, and that the display will update incrementally as results are processed.

EDIT

Added example code below:

/**
 * Simple wrapper around Object[] representing a row from the ResultSet.
 */
private class Row {
  private final Object[] values;

  public Row(Object[] values) {
    this.values = values;
  }

  public int getSize() {
    return values.length;
  }

  public Object getValue(int i) {
    return values[i];
  }
}

// TableModel implementation that will be populated by SwingWorker.
public class ResultSetTableModel extends AbstractTableModel {
  private final ResultSetMetaData rsmd;
  private final List<Row> rows;

  public ResultSetTableModel(ResultSetMetaData rsmd) {
    this.rsmd = rsmd;
    this.rows = new ArrayList<Row>();
  }

  public int getRowCount() {
    return rows.size();
  }

  public int getColumnCount() {
    return rsmd.getColumnCount();
  }

  public Object getValue(int row, int column) {
    return rows.get(row).getValue(column);
  }

  public String getColumnName(int col) {
    return rsmd.getColumnName(col - 1); // ResultSetMetaData columns indexed from 1, not 0.
  }

  public Class<?> getColumnClass(int col) {
    // TODO: Convert SQL type (int) returned by ResultSetMetaData.getType(col) to Java Class.
  }
}

// SwingWorker implementation
new SwingWorker<Void, Row>() {
  public Void doInBackground() {
    // TODO: Process ResultSet and create Rows.  Call publish() for every N rows created.
  }

  protected void process(Row... chunks) {
    // TODO: Add to ResultSetTableModel List and fire TableEvent.
  }
}.execute();

Depending on what you've done already and what you're willing to do, I've been using Netbeans with its Beans Binding support for a database-driven app very successfully. You bind your JTable to a database and it automatically builds the JPA queries.

You have to create a custom TableModel There you can specify where and how the data is coming from.

You really have to fully understand first how JTable + TableModel works and then follow one of the previously posted answers.

I am giving a small method for display database table data in JTable. You need to pass only the resultset of the database table as parameter.

    // rs is the ResultSet of the Database table
    public void displayData(ResultSet rs)
    {
        //jt Represents JTable
        //jf represents JFrame
        int i;
        int count;
        String a[];
        String header[] = {"1","2","3","4","5"};   //Table Header Values, change, as your wish
        count = header.length;


    //First set the Table header
    for(i = 0; i < count; i++)
    {
        model.addColumn(header[i]);
    }
    jt.setModel(model);                             //Represents table Model
    jf.add(jt.getTableHeader(),BorderLayout.NORTH);

    a = new String[count];

    // Adding Database table Data in the JTable
    try
    {
        while (rs.next())
        {
            for(i = 0; i < count; i++)
            {
                a[i] = rs.getString(i+1);
            }
            model.addRow(a);                //Adding the row in table model
            jt.setModel(model);             // set the model in jtable
        }
    }

    catch (Exception e)
    {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Exception : "+e, "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
    }
}