Handlers
A handler is a mechanism to drop a message on the main queue (more precisely, the queue attached to the thread on which the handler is instantiated) so that the message can be processed at a later point in time by the main thread. The message that is dropped has an internal reference pointing to the handler that dropped it.
When the main thread gets around to processing that message, it invokes the handler that dropped the message through a callback method on the handler object. This callback method is called handleMessage. Figure 17–2 presents this relationship between handlers, messages, and the main thread.
Figure 17–2. Handler, ...
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