API REVIEW: Weak event handler

[Sven Reimers]

Ok. Here is a link to the JavaDoc how NetBeans handles this for PropertyChanges

http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-openide-util/org/openide/util/WeakListeners.html

I still do not understand the necessity for creating a new interface,
it contains no additional information (API) - for the user it can only
be used as an EventListener (assuming there will be no API explicitly
requiring WeakEventListener)..

Regards

Sven

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Lubo,
>
>> I also considered to define the WeakEventHandler as an interface which extends EventHandler, but adds no additional methods. Then leave it to event handler containers to reference such event handlers weakly. This has very simple and direct usage, but also its own problems. We can discuss it further if you find this solution preferred to the wrapper approach.
>
> Extending WeakReference and lacking the public constructor did make me a little weak in the knees :-). What were the problems with WeakEventHandler being an interface?
>
> Thanks!
> Richard



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