SwingWorker

While researching my first algorithm I came across SwingWorker which is my first step I've taken into threaded applications.

A summary of SwingWorker:

SwingWorker is designed for situations where you need to have a long running task run in the background thread and provide updates to the User Interface when done, or still processing.

Any subclass of SwingWorker must implement the doInBackground() method to perform the background computation.

The workflow of SwingWorker:

1. Current thread

The Execute() method is called on this thread.

(schedules the SwingWorker on the worker thread)

2. Worker Thread

The doInBackground() method is called.

3. Event Dispatch Thread

Invokes the process() and done() methods here and notifies and PorpertyChangeListeners on this thread.

Use at work:

We are using the SwingWorker to make a calculation that deals with the rendering of the graphics which does take some time, so that is why SwingWorker was used in this case.

Just something I learned.

Here is the javadoc

https://swingworker.dev.java.net/nonav/javadoc/index.html