It’s easy ! You need set true the attribute expand of the yours nodes and parents. Example :
public TreeNode makeTree()
MyObject myFatherObject = new MyObject();
// The first Node in the tree
TreeNode root = new DefaultTreeNode(myFatherObject, null);
TreeNode nodeRoot = new DefaultTreeNode(myFatherObject, root);
TreeNode node = new DefaultTreeNode(holding, nodeRoot);
node.setParent(nodeRoot);
node.setExpanded(true);
node.getParent().setExpanded(true);
// The node sun of the above
MyObject mySunObject = new MyObject();
TreeNode sunNode = new DefaultTreeNode(
"objectType",
mySunObject ,
node);
sunNode.setExpanded(true);
sunNode.setParent(nodePrincipal);
sunNode.getParent().setExpanded(true);
return root;
}