This will resize your JTable column width based on the contents of the header and data.

public JTable autoResizeColWidth(JTable table, DefaultTableModel model) {
    table.setAutoResizeMode(JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF);
    table.setModel(model);

    int margin = 5;

    for (int i = 0; i < table.getColumnCount(); i++) {
        int                     vColIndex = i;
        DefaultTableColumnModel colModel  = (DefaultTableColumnModel) table.getColumnModel();
        TableColumn             col       = colModel.getColumn(vColIndex);
        int                     width     = 0;

        // Get width of column header
        TableCellRenderer renderer = col.getHeaderRenderer();

        if (renderer == null) {
            renderer = table.getTableHeader().getDefaultRenderer();
        }

        Component comp = renderer.getTableCellRendererComponent(table, col.getHeaderValue(), false, false, 0, 0);

        width = comp.getPreferredSize().width;

        // Get maximum width of column data
        for (int r = 0; r < table.getRowCount(); r++) {
            renderer = table.getCellRenderer(r, vColIndex);
            comp     = renderer.getTableCellRendererComponent(table, table.getValueAt(r, vColIndex), false, false,
                    r, vColIndex);
            width = Math.max(width, comp.getPreferredSize().width);
        }

        // Add margin
        width += 2 * margin;

        // Set the width
        col.setPreferredWidth(width);
    }

    ((DefaultTableCellRenderer) table.getTableHeader().getDefaultRenderer()).setHorizontalAlignment(
        SwingConstants.LEFT);

    // table.setAutoCreateRowSorter(true);
    table.getTableHeader().setReorderingAllowed(false);

    return table;
}

Example:

// Must pass the model
DefaultTableModel model = new DefaultTableModel();
jTable = autoResizeColWidth(jTable, model);