swingworker

May be this is trivial, I am struggling to understand a simple documentation on SwingWorker . Here is the copy pasted content Workflow There are three threads involved in the life cycle of a SwingWorker : Current thread: The execute() method is called on this thread. It schedules SwingWorker for the execution on a worker thread and returns immediately. One can wait for the SwingWorker to complete using the get methods. Worker thread: The doInBackground() method is called on this thread. This is where all background activities should happen. To notify PropertyChangeListeners about bound

I want to use the swing worker thread to update my GUI in swing. pls any help is appreciated.I need to update only the status of 1 field using the thread i.e setText(). Eng.Fouad I just answer similar question on another forum for a question about SwingWorker: import java.awt.FlowLayout; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.util.List; import java.util.concurrent.Executor; import java.util.concurrent.Executors; import javax.swing.AbstractAction; import javax.swing.Action; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.SwingUtilities; import javax.swing

The common way to interact with EDT from swing worker is useing get() method. But i have a long task and code like this: public Void doInBackground() { for(Object o : objects) { doSomething(); MyGlobalGUIConsole.addMessage("Done for " + o); } } In most tutotials is recommended to use return values to get something back from SwingWorker to EDT, but can i just: public Void doInBackground() { for(Object o : objects) { doSomething(); SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { MyGlobalGUIConsole.addMessage("Done for " + o); } }); } } You can, but the SwingWorker has