Setting ColumnWidth for individual column in OLD uitable

How can I set column width for each column in old uitable? I am trying it as follows but it does not work. I can see from several references that ColumnWidth is a settable property in old uitable.

If it is not possible to it via matlab fucntions, any hints on how this can be achieved using underlying java would be appreciated.

Thanks.

h_old=uitable('v0','data',magic(5),'position',[5,5,550,400]);
set(h_old,'Units','normalized')
cwidth={'100' 'auto' 'auto' 'auto' '100'};
set(h_old,'ColumnWidth',cwidth);

[Allu Zeff]

"Undocumented Secrets of MATLAB-Java Programming" (Y.Altman) 4.1.3