This is Part Two of a series of articles on Java.next. In Part Two, I will look at how Java.next languages interoperate with Java. Java interop is trivial in all of the Java.next languages. We ...

John Zukowski explains the origins of Swing's single-threaded event model, then introduces a thread-related bug that could pose a threat to your Swing programs.

ActionListener is what drives it - the only thing that needs it. Sounds more like you need a method (s) solely for getting/setting the colour, and call it in whatever ActionListeners/etc you need.