Appendix A. Design Patterns

Event Objects

Whenever you define an event object for passing information related to a particular event, you should create a subclass of java.util.EventObject. By convention, these classes should end in the word Event. This helps to quickly identify their purpose to programmers. All of the event subclasses provided by the core Java class libraries follow this convention.

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