I have seen postings about similar problems, and have tried
duplicating what others have tried, but my tree never updates with the
new values.  In the code below, I have stepped through and see the new
nodes with the correct values, but it never redraws.  The reason that
I am removing and reinserting the node is that just calling
node.setUserObject(newVal) does not change the length of the label.
Atleast it updates the label to ... :)

Here is the code snipet.  If I don't actually expand the tree until
later in the game, I do get the current value for SysUpTime and
numPktsRecvd, but it never updates it from there.

        if (label == "SysUpTime")
            node = _sysUpTime;
        else if (label == "Packets Received")
            node = _numPktsRecvd;

        DefaultMutableTreeNode newNode;
        TreeNode parent = node.getParent();
        int index = parent.getIndex(node);
        _localModel.removeNodeFromParent(node);
        newNode = new DefaultMutableTreeNode(
                new String(label + ":    " + value), false);
        _localModel.insertNodeInto((MutableTreeNode) newNode,
                (MutableTreeNode) parent, index);
        if (label == "SysUpTime")
            _sysUpTime = newNode;
        else if (label == "Packets Received")
            _numPktsRecvd = newNode;
        _localModel.reload();

Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks
Debbie Charan