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Article #19493Understanding synchronous vs. asynch events
From: Mark Hunter
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00
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I come from a Windows development environment, and I'm fairly new to Java. I'm trying to understand how the Windows "post message" and "send message" operations would translate to Java events. I've used the JBuilder class EventMulticaster successfully. Seems like that is similar to sending a message in Windows, since sending is synchronous and waits for a return value from the target of the message. But it's also common in Windows to post a message, in situations where you don't want to step in front of other important messages that may already be in the message queue. Or you deliberately want a slight asynchronous delay in delivery of the message, so that you can stick it at the end of the queue and still continue processing your code block. That's what I don't know how to do in Java. In fact, it seems to be real hard to put anything into Java's event queue. Does anyone have any conceptual advice for me? Thanks, Mark Hunter
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