Swing Thread Callbacks

Question

Any suggestions on how I can cleanup the following code pattern that repeats multiple times in my app.

new Thread(new Runnable() {
  public void run() {
    // Do some work here
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        // Update the Swing Interface to reflect the change
      }

    });
  }
}).start();

Basically there are two code blocks the section that does the work on another thread, and the code block that executes in the Swing UI Thread.

I'm pretty sure I can create a class to sub in these blocks, but I'm hoping there something in the Swing Library that makes this easier.

Thanks.

Answer 1

look at the SwingWorker framework

Answer 2

The Concurrency in Swing tutorial is another good place to look. There's discussion about SwingWorker there, too.