<AWT Dev> [9] Review Request: JDK-8039377 Clipboard should post notifications without using the EventQueue.invokeLater

[Anthony Petrov]

Hi Petr,

Clipboard is a part of AWT API. The AWT is a multi-threaded GUI toolkit, 
which means that users can call Clipboard's methods on any thread. If we 
remove invokeLater(), we break this contract, which I'm not sure we want 
to do.

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best regards,
Anthony

On 4/7/2014 5:16 PM, Petr Pchelko wrote:
> Hello, AWT Team.
>
> Please review the fix for the issue:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8039377
> The fix is here:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pchelko/9/8039377/webrev.00/
>
> The problem: Clipboard depend on the EventQueue. The solution - remove the invokeLater. The Clipboard object is used only as a Swing sandbox clipboard which is used from the EDT.
> The user can't use in as the System clipboard, so there's no worries about the callback being executed on some privileged thread. So we can simply remove the invokeLater here.
>
> With best regards. Petr.
>