event handling

• Identifying where an event should be forwarded.
• Making the forward.
• Receiving the forwarded event.
• Taking some kind of appropriate action in response, such as writing to a log, sending an error or recovery routine or sending a message.
• The event handler may ultimately forward the event to an event consumer.

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More resources from around the web: - Devshed.com offers a tutorial on event handling in Java. - On JavaWorld.com, Todd Sundsted explains Java and event handling.

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