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- /*
- * @(#)ActiveEvent.java 1.4 98/03/18
- *
- * Copyright 1997 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
- * 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California, 94303, U.S.A.
- * All rights reserved.
- *
- * This software is the confidential and proprietary information
- * of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You
- * shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall use
- * it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement
- * you entered into with Sun.
- */
-
- package java.awt;
-
- /**
- * An interface for events that know how dispatch themselves.
- * By implementing this interface an event can be placed upon the event
- * queue and this method will be called to dispatch the event. This allows
- * objects that are not components to arrange for behavior to occur on
- * a different thread from the current thread.
- *
- * Peer implementations can use this facility to avoid making upcalls
- * that could potentially cause a deadlock.
- *
- * @author Timothy Prinzing
- * @version 1.4 03/18/98
- */
- public interface ActiveEvent {
-
- /**
- * Dispatch the event to it's target, listeners of the events source,
- * or do whatever it is this event is supposed to do.
- */
- public void dispatch();
- }
-