Who interrupts my thread?

Question

I understand what an InterruptedException does and why it is thrown. However in my application I get it when waiting for SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait() on a thr

Answer 1

There is something strange here.

From the javadoc of invokeAndWait, an InterruptedException is thrown

if we're interrupted while waiting for the event dispatching thread to finish excecuting doRun.run()

Have you tried to see if the code executed in the EDT sends any exception ? Or do the code in that EDT tries to modify some of this thread's variables (I know this term is not "orthodox" in java language, but I hope you see what I mean : any code implying synchronized, wait, join, ...