About swing Timer and synchronized

From:
marpauser@gmail.com
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:50:48 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<b4e76187-04cc-4ddd-949a-94657224d451@o6g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>
Hello,
I would like your comment about synchronized and
SwingUtilities.invokeLater in this example with javax.swing.Timer:

/*
 * First
 */
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class MyTimer{

    private Timer timer;

    public MyTimer(){
        initTimer();
    }

    public void startTimer(){
        timer.start();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyTimer myTimer = new MyTimer();
        myTimer.startTimer();
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Wait...","MyTimer" ,
JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);
    }

    private void initTimer(){
        timer = new Timer( 5000, new ActionListener()
        {
            public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e )
            {
                doAction();
            }
        } );
    }

    private void doAction(){
        System.out.println("Hello!");
    }
}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/*
 * Second
 */
    .....

       public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyTimer myTimer = new MyTimer();
        myTimer.startTimer();
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Wait...","MyTimer" ,
JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);
    }
       ......
    private synchronized void doAction(){
        System.out.println("Hello!");
    }

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/*
 * Third
 */

.......

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyTimer myTimer = new MyTimer();
        myTimer.startTimer();
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Wait...","MyTimer" ,
JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);
            }
        });

    }

........

private void doAction(){
        System.out.println("Hello!");
    }

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/*
 * Fourth
 */

.......

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyTimer myTimer = new MyTimer();
        myTimer.startTimer();
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog( null, "Wait...","MyTimer" ,
JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);
            }
        });

    }

........

private synchronized void doAction(){
        System.out.println("Hello!");
    }

Thanks,
Paolo

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