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

I know there is already an accepted answer for this question, but this same question was asked here:

MouseAdapter: which pattern does it use?

See there for more deatils, but the MouseAdapter adapts the very awkaward MouseListener interface into a more usable form.