Re: repaint method and design question
John B. Matthews wrote:
I don't think it matters as long as the Observer respects the
order/thread warning above. In particular, my proposed Observer's
update(Observable, Object) method ends with repaint(). The hidden
assumption is that repaint() must be invoked from a JComponent, which
uses the RepaintManager to run from the EDT:
I see nothing in the Javadocs for JComponent#repaint() that indicates that the
method is thread safe.
But you showed us
<http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/painting/index.html#paint_process>
which explains that repaint() is thread safe. This worries me, as I had
thought the Javadocs to be normative.
... there are stochastic models where no synchronization at
all gives satisfactory results.
How do variable values communicate across threads in that case?
Or by "stochastic" do you mean that it doesn't matter, because the results are
intended to be random?
I really do wonder how one handles the memory-model concerns in that
"stochastic models" scenario. Would you be so gracious as to explain?
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