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On 4/22/2012 8:18 AM, Jan Burse wrote:

>> myTable.putClientProperty("com.mycompany.mypackage.mykey", "value");
>>
> "The clientProperty dictionary is not intended to support large scale
> extensions to JComponent nor should be it considered an alternative to
> subclassing when designing a new component."


Thanks to you and Quoll for pointing that out, I wasn't aware of that 
method.  However, sub-classing is the last thing I'd want to do for the 
Swing API.  The docs do say "large scale extensions," so as long as the 
OP only wants to store a few properties, it should be fine.

OTOH, I've never needed to use this facility, so I really do wonder what 
Peter means to do.  There's probably better ways of accomplishing his goal.