Chapter 6. Java Core APIs
Event Handling
Packages
java.awt.event, javax.swing.event, java.util (some classes)
Use: J2SE (delegation model since JDK1.1)
Overview
Event handling allows two or more objects to communicate about a change of state within a system. In an event-based system, one object acts as the event producer, and creates an event object to represent some change in its state. It then passes the event to one or more registered receivers by calling some method on each receiver object.
Event handling has been part of Java since the beginning. It is part of the AWT and, since J2SE v1.2, has also been ...
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