What is java.awt.Component.getName() and setName() used for?

Question

What is java.awt.Component.getName() used for? It always seems to be null in the applications I build with NetBeans. I\'m thinking of storing some help text p

Answer 1

I use it for handling listeners in one single class apart. I receive as a parameter the component which contains my object.addListener not as a container but as the class that contains that object. Thanks Vivavinyl for the the tip of setting the name first. It was useful and worked.