We would like to know how to clone a whole JTree/TreeModel.
import java.awt.BorderLayout; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; //from w ww .ja v a 2 s . co m import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JScrollPane; import javax.swing.JTree; import javax.swing.Timer; import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode; import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel; public class Main { private static DefaultTreeModel getTreeModel() { return new DefaultTreeModel(new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Root object")); } public static void main(String[] args) { JFrame frame = new JFrame(Main.class.getSimpleName()); DefaultTreeModel model = getTreeModel(); JTree tree1 = new JTree(model); JTree tree2 = new JTree(model); frame.add(new JScrollPane(tree1), BorderLayout.WEST); frame.add(new JScrollPane(tree2), BorderLayout.EAST); frame.pack(); frame.setSize(frame.getWidth() + 50, frame.getHeight() + 140); frame.setVisible(true); Timer t = new Timer(2000, new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { DefaultMutableTreeNode root = (DefaultMutableTreeNode) model.getRoot(); root.add(new DefaultMutableTreeNode("A new node")); model.nodesWereInserted(root, new int[] { root.getChildCount() - 1 }); tree1.expandRow(0); tree2.expandRow(0); frame.revalidate(); } }); t.start(); } }