Why is MouseAdapter an adapter?

Question

The name (and javadocs) imply that MouseAdapter is an adapter (the design pattern). But I don\'t see it as such - it doesn\'t adapt anything to anything, at fir

Answer 1

Yes, it is not an adapter in the sense of GoF pattern because it does not adapt anything. It can be considered an instance of Abstract Class pattern [woolf97]:

The superclass may provide a complete implementation that is a default or minimal implementation.