Why is EventListenerList traversed backwards in fireFooXXX()?

Question

I don\'t understand the rationale of this code, taken from javax.swing.event.EventListenerList docs:

protected void fireFooXXX() {
    // Guaranteed to retur         


        

Answer 1

to answer #2: Every second listener is called because the array that EventListenerList uses is set populated as an array of Listener-Type, Listener-Instance pairs.