<Swing Dev> synchronization of invalidateLayout

[Alan Snyder]

It is mentioned in the documentation of BoxLayout.invalidateLayout() that this method may be called on a thread other than the UI thread.

Is this still the case? If it is, shouldn’t this fact be documented more prominently?

I notice that OverlayLayout does not synchronize.

I also notice that GroupLayout synchronizes in the invalidateLayout method, but nowhere else, which seems useless, unless there is some subtlety in Java synchronization that I am unaware of.

As far as I can tell, the remaining implementations of this method in the JDK are empty.

  Alan