How to print a table of information in Java

You can use System.out.format(...)

Example:

final Object[][] table = new String[4][];
table[0] = new String[] { "foo", "bar", "baz" };
table[1] = new String[] { "bar2", "foo2", "baz2" };
table[2] = new String[] { "baz3", "bar3", "foo3" };
table[3] = new String[] { "foo4", "bar4", "baz4" };

for (final Object[] row : table) {
    System.out.format("%15s%15s%15s%n", row);
}

Result:

        foo            bar            baz
       bar2           foo2           baz2
       baz3           bar3           foo3
       foo4           bar4           baz4

Or use the following code for left-aligned output:

System.out.format("%-15s%-15s%-15s%n", row);

General function to table-format a list of arrays:

public static String formatAsTable(List<List<String>> rows)
{
    int[] maxLengths = new int[rows.get(0).size()];
    for (List<String> row : rows)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < row.size(); i++)
        {
            maxLengths[i] = Math.max(maxLengths[i], row.get(i).length());
        }
    }

    StringBuilder formatBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    for (int maxLength : maxLengths)
    {
        formatBuilder.append("%-").append(maxLength + 2).append("s");
    }
    String format = formatBuilder.toString();

    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
    for (List<String> row : rows)
    {
        result.append(String.format(format, row.toArray(new String[0]))).append("\n");
    }
    return result.toString();
}

Usage:

List<List<String>> rows = new ArrayList<>();
List<String> headers = Arrays.asList("Database", "Maintainer", "First public release date", "Latest stable version", "Latest release date");
rows.add(headers);
rows.add(Arrays.asList("4D (4th Dimension)", "4D S.A.S.", "1984", "v16.0", "2017-01-10"));
rows.add(Arrays.asList("ADABAS", "Software AG", "1970", "8.1", "2013-06"));
rows.add(Arrays.asList("Adaptive Server Enterprise", "SAP AG", "1987", "16.0", "2015"));
rows.add(Arrays.asList("Apache Derby", "Apache", "2004", "10.14.1.0", "2017-10-22"));

System.out.println(formatAsTable(rows));

The result:

Database                    Maintainer   First public release date  Latest stable version  Latest release date  
4D (4th Dimension)          4D S.A.S.    1984                       v16.0                  2017-01-10           
ADABAS                      Software AG  1970                       8.1                    2013-06              
Adaptive Server Enterprise  SAP AG       1987                       16.0                   2015                 
Apache Derby                Apache       2004                       10.14.1.0              2017-10-22