This is just a preliminary post...

I've been called in from vacation to help out with some
performance-problems in an applet.

I just have the problem description so far, and haven't
seen the actual implementation yet. But I thought I could
ask in a generic way.

* Applet is to show a JTable with 24 rows (hours) of data.
* Columns represents (strike)-prices.
* Number of columns (headers) varies between min and max
 strike price depending on tick-size (minimum resolution).
* Cells contains volumes.

* Headers and data is read from web-server as a string:
 (r1c1;r1c2;...;r1cN|...|rNc1;rNc2;...;rNcN)
* It takes 300 mSec to read a 450Kb string in the above
 format from the web-server.
* It takes 2-300 mSec to split the string into a two-
 dimentional array of strings.

* It takes 10-15 Seconds to update the data array into
 the data-model while the JTables flashes and scrolls
 like a maniac.

Goal:
* Reduce the time taken to update or create the data-model.
* Avoid having the JTable look like an animated schess-board
 during the process.

I know it's not enough specific information here, but if
someone can give some hints and advice on how such a beast
*should* be handled, I'll really appreciate it!

TIA...