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John Zukowski

In the Model-View-Controller (MVC) world of Swing, the JTable is just a display mechanism. Instead of selecting rows in the table (view), you select rows in the selection model:

ListSelectionModel selectionModel = 
  table.getSelectionModel();
selectionModel.setSelectionInterval(start, end);

You can also select multiple blocks of non-contiguous rows, using the addSelectionInterval() method.