Re: Join thread with SwingWorker objects

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:47:06 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
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John B. Matthews wrote:

I can't see where you define Void, "the type used for carrying out
intermediate results by this SwingWorker's publish and process methods"
and symbolized by the generic parameter V in the API [1].


<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Void.html>

You might look at the examples in the SwingWorker API [1] and this
similar database example [2]. In the latter, the generic type V is
Double, and individual instances are published from the background
thread. Note that the List<Double> received by process() is _not_ the
same List<Double> returned by doInBackground(). The former contains
intermediate results; the latter is the background thread's working
result set.

The method doInBackground() can create other threads, but you still have
to synchronize their processing, as others have suggested.

[1]<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/SwingWorker.html>
[2]<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews/randomdata>

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