RFR: 6441373: Editing JTable is not Serializable [v2]

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:33:11 GMT, Sergey Bylokhov <serb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The patch implements serialization for editable JTables. Currently, most classes responsible for JTable editing are not serializable, so trying to serialize them causes an exception. The patch has two parts:
>> 
>>  - The editable JTable is reset to non-editable using the common pattern stopCellEditing + cancelCellEditing. This is added to the compWriteObjectNotify method, which acts as an entry point for serialization of Swing components. It allows actions to be performed before the parent classes are serialized.
>> 
>>  - The editing coordinates for all JTables are reset to -1. Before this patch, even non-editable JTables had their coordinates reset to 0 from -1 because the fields were transient.
>
> Sergey Bylokhov has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'openjdk:master' into JDK-6441373
>  - Update JTableSerialization.java
>  - 6441373: Editing JTable is not Serializable

Marked as reviewed by psadhukhan (Reviewer).

src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/JTable.java line 6011:

> 6009:         editorRemover = (PropertyChangeListener) f.get("editorRemover", null);
> 6010:         editingColumn = -1;
> 6011:         editingRow = -1;

Thanks for this ingenious solution

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29313#pullrequestreview-3739371304
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29313#discussion_r2754312620