Swing threading and the event-dispatch thread

submited by krishnas on Fri Aug 31st, 2007

Do you ever get the feeling there's something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing's single-threaded event model from Java 1.0 to its origins in the JavaBeans component model and AWT, he reveals an initialization bug in a commonly used start-up pattern.

Topic: java