What Next?
With all of this control over the look of a tree and its contents, you can create some impressive interfaces for a wide variety of data. You can create your own network management software that lets you browse domains and subdomains and computers and users. Any hierarchy of information you can think of can now be shown graphically.
It is worth pointing out, however, that you are not restricted to
graphical applications with these models. You can use the
DefaultTreeModel to store regular, hierarchical
data, even if you have no intention of displaying the data on a
screen. The model is flexible and provides a good starting point if
you don’t have any tree data structures of your own lying
around.
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