to other components by default.
You can change it to expected tab and shift+tab combination with the
following code snippet:
JTable table = ... Set forwKeys = new HashSet(); forwKeys.add(AWTKeyStroke.getAWTKeyStroke("TAB")); table.setFocusTraversalKeys(KeyboardFocusManager.FORWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS, forwKeys); Set backKeys = new HashSet(); backKeys.add(AWTKeyStroke.getAWTKeyStroke("shift TAB")); table.setFocusTraversalKeys(KeyboardFocusManager.BACKWARD_TRAVERSAL_KEYS, backKeys);