Tabular views, unsurprisingly, present data in a tabular form. As an example, here is a screenshot of the hosts view...

Applications can create (and inject into the GUI) their own view(s) of tabular data. This tutorial will step you through the process...

Application Set Up

Please see the Application Set Up section in the Custom View tutorial for details. The only difference for setting up a tabular view would be in the choice of archetype to overlay in step (2):

(2) Overlay the UI additional components

$ onos-create-app uitab org.meowster.app meowster-app