Which Swing component methods are thread safe?

Question

According to Swing tutorial:

Some Swing component methods are labelled \"thread safe\" in the API specification; these can be safely invoked from any

Answer 1

In Java 7, previously thread safe methods of the view components rooted in JTextComponent are no longer thread safe. A typical workaround using EventQueue.invokeLater() is shown here. The remaining model-related methods, listed here, remain thread safe.

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• JTextComponent
  • replaceSelection()
  • setText()
  • print()
  • getPrintable()

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• JTextPane
  • replaceSelection()
  • insertComponent()
  • insertIcon()
  • setLogicalStyle()
  • setCharacterAttributes()
  • setParagraphAttributes()

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• JTextArea
  • insert()
  • append()
  • replaceRange()