The Java 1.0 event model GUI programming for what was then known simply as Java (rather than the Java platform) started life with a wacky containment model for event handling. Instead of simply ...

In this article, we'll look at the concepts behind event-driven applications, the various methods of event handling and generic techniques you can use to simplify the task of handling events.

Event-driven design has been around for quite some time. Within Java, both AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit) and Swing are based on an event model. Java provides the classes EventQueue, AWTEvent ...