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By bonlebon
via javaboutique.internet.com
Published: Apr 23 2007 / 04:01

Poorly-written Swing applications can appear to freeze when time-consuming code is executing. These applications frequently fail to provide their users with feedback on the code's execution state. In the worst case, end users will wonder if the application is working correctly.
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Rob Lang replied ago:

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SwingWorker is cool but hardly new. I used it in 2002 for my PhD software. I think this article should also be listed as Multithreading because that's what SwingWorker does in standard Comp Sci language.

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caa replied ago:

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Guess you didn't read the article, because it talks about the rewritten javax.swing.SwingWorker that was introduced in Java SE6.

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