Re: Swing in different 2 threads

From:
Thomas Hawtin <usenet@tackline.plus.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:56:15 +0100
Message-ID:
<450acd19$0$563$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>
dimitrik107@hotmail.com wrote:

Thomas Hawtin wrote:

If you've got a class extending JFrame, you are probably extending
classes inappropriately. But apparently bad coding is fine for GUI
applications...


Thank you for answer it is more clear now. I don't understand this
point about extendin classed inappropriately? Most sample code for
Swing tutorial has class MyFrame extends JFrame {...} Are you saying
the tutorial code are probably extending classes inappropriately?


Yes.

See Effective Java, Item 14: Favor composition over inheritance.

Indeed almost all of the code should not be dependent on being in a
JFrame. There's two main motivations for this: Firstly, you want to keep
your code as simple as possible, so don't involve inheritance. A
secondary point is that you may want to move your JFrame contents to,
say, a JInternalFrame, a JDialog, a JSplitPane, a JApplet, a JFrame
subclassed for some genuine purpose, another layer of panels between
frame and your contents, or something you haven't thought of yet.

Tom Hawtin
--
Unemployed English Java programmer
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