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Swing Action management with Reflection
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Swing Action management with Reflection
One of the strengths you’ll find in both Java`s AWT and Swing GUI toolkits lies in the flexible, abstract way they handle events. But this flexibility comes at the expense of simplicity, with the result that Java developers may find themselves writing large amounts of code to handle comparatively simple tasks, such as creating menu or toolbar commands. One of our Java tips of the week, "Done with mirrors: Use Reflection to catch generic actions," introduces an elegant technique for handling events with minimal code by dynamically generating function names via Java`s Reflection API.
