My group ended up creating awk scripts to parse a dump of a database
table structure.  The awk script generated Factory, Data,
TableRenderer, TableModel, Editor, etc. components.  The idea of
course is that each of those use a typical set of standard
information, but that all too often, you have to do a lot of customize
(i.e. editors should use drop downs, check boxes, change coloring,
etc.)

There may be something like that already existing out there (that
generates that code).  Of course, I'm not sure this is the best method
for this ;)
Jason