Communicating Events Created by Java Components

Users talk to a bean through event objects created by interacting with the bean's graphic user interface. JavaBeans graphic user interfaces are typically composed of components from the AWT or Swing. In this section, you learn how to register event listeners with AWT or Swing components. Afterwards, you'll use your new knowledge to write beans that respond to user interactions.

Registering Event Listeners

Each Java AWT and Swing component can create event objects in response to all sorts of user interactions. For instance, a java.awt.Button object can produce java.awt.event. ActionEvent, java.awt.event.ComponentEvent, java.awt.event.FocusEvent, java.awt.event.KeyEvent, java.awt.event.MouseEvent, ...

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