Chapter 10. Working with Tabular Data

Almost all applications deal with tabular data of some kind. An application management tool typically shows a list with statistics for installed applications and allows an operator to start and stop applications from the list, and a human resource application may display a list of employees and let an administrator select and edit the profile for any one of them. The sample application we develop in this book works with two sets of tabular data: the list of all expense reports and the list of entries for an individual report.

In this chapter, we look at different ways to display and manipulate tabular data, ranging from displaying a simple read-only listing to developing an editable table.