We trigger the hide/show of columns in a JTable from a JPopupMenu
displayed on a right mouse button click. When the hide column menu
option is selected we call the
TableColumnModel.removeColumn(TableColumn) function and an exception
is thrown.

The same code works with no problems in Java version 1.2

The exception is as follows:

Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -1 < 0
    at java.util.Vector.elementAt(Vector.java:422)
    at javax.swing.table.DefaultTableColumnModel.getColumn(DefaultTableColumnModel.java:271)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTableHeaderUI.getHeaderRenderer(BasicTableHeaderUI.java:336)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTableHeaderUI.paintCell(BasicTableHeaderUI.java:347)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTableHeaderUI.paint(BasicTableHeaderUI.java:328)
    at javax.swing.plaf.ComponentUI.update(ComponentUI.java:34)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paintComponent(JComponent.java:390)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:682)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691)
    at javax.swing.JViewport.paint(JViewport.java:663)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493)
    at javax.swing.JSplitPane.paintChildren(JSplitPane.java:1001)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:691)
    at javax.swing.JLayeredPane.paint(JLayeredPane.java:541)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:493)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:664)
    at java.awt.GraphicsCallback$PaintCallback.run(GraphicsCallback.java:18)
    at sun.awt.SunGraphicsCallback.runOneComponent(SunGraphicsCallback.java:49)
    at sun.awt.SunGraphicsCallback.runComponents(SunGraphicsCallback.java:86)
    at java.awt.Container.paint(Container.java:955)
    at javax.swing.JFrame.update(JFrame.java:324)
    at sun.awt.RepaintArea.update(RepaintArea.java:332)
    at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.handleEvent(WComponentPeer.java:195)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2658)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1208)
    at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:921)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2492)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:334)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:126)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:88)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:80)

Thanks to anyone that can help,
Nigel