Events are not exclusive to the Java platform; they existed before Java and were popularized by graphical user interfaces like Windows and the X Window System. These graphic-intensive systems are ...

In “Events and Listeners,” I outlined a generic recipe for creating and firing custom events. Since the original answer published, I’ve received several emails requesting a complete, concrete example.

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 ...