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Do you ever get the feeling there’s something not quite right about Swing threading? John Zukowski puts his finger on it in this article. While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java ...

I have a program perfect for threading. Except at the core of the critical loop I call a Swing method. So how do I best do this? A) Surround the Swing.method() with locks. Sounds slow. B) Come up with ...

We have this business in-house application that uses Sun's JAVA JVM 1.4 and it's a bandwidth hogger, since it involves a lot of real-time streaming data. The users complain that the app runs slow on ...