org.jivesoftware.spark.util
Class SwingWorker

java.lang.Object
  org.jivesoftware.spark.util.SwingWorker

public abstract class SwingWorker
extends java.lang.Object

Improvement version of the javax SwingWorker class to avoid deadlocks. This gives user multi-threaded abilities within their swing apps.

Author:

Derek DeMoro

Constructor Summary

SwingWorker()
Start a thread that will call the construct method and then exit.

Method Summary

abstract java.lang.Object	construct() Compute the value to be returned by the get method.
void	finished() Called on the event dispatching thread (not on the worker thread) after the construct method has returned.
java.lang.Object	get() Return the value created by the construct method.
protected java.lang.Object	getValue() Get the value produced by the worker thread, or null if it hasn't been constructed yet.
void	interrupt() A new method that interrupts the worker thread.
void	setInvokable(Invokable invoker)
void	start() Start the worker thread.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SwingWorker

public SwingWorker()

Start a thread that will call the construct method and then exit.

Method Detail

getValue

protected java.lang.Object getValue()

Get the value produced by the worker thread, or null if it hasn't been constructed yet.

construct

public abstract java.lang.Object construct()

Compute the value to be returned by the get method.

finished

public void finished()

Called on the event dispatching thread (not on the worker thread) after the construct method has returned.

interrupt

public void interrupt()

A new method that interrupts the worker thread. Call this method to force the worker to stop what it's doing.

get

public java.lang.Object get()

Return the value created by the construct method. Returns null if either the constructing thread or the current thread was interrupted before a value was produced.

Returns:

the value created by the construct method

start

public void start()

Start the worker thread.

setInvokable

public void setInvokable(Invokable invoker)