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In this tutorial we are going to build a program for browsing a list of issues.
Our issues come from an XML file that is parsed using the included issuezilla.jar
library. For your applications data may come from any source such as files or network services.
We will demonstrate the features of Glazed Lists in this program and provide the source code
to use these features.
In part one of this tutorial we discuss Glazed Lists and build a simple application
that displays our list of issues within a JList.
The EventList interface extends the
familiarjava.util.List interface. This means it has the
sameadd(), set() and
remove() methods found in ArrayList
and Vector.
But there are some differences between EventLists and the
plain java.util.List:
Event listeners: In order to propagate changes from a
source list to its various display widgets and transformations,
EventLists fire events when modified.
Concurrency: EventLists may be
accessed by multiple threads simultaneously so they provide easy-to-use and
powerful locks.