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There are a couple of ways of setting the identifier property for a TableColumn instance (from DefaultTableModel or TableColumn), but Matisse does not expose any way to change its value. This hurts available binding frameworks that rely on this property for doing their magic, making it cumbersome to develop Swing GUIs.
We plan to include some support for customization of table and its columns in the next release.