Campbell Ritchie wrote:Not really a good idea? That is a bit like saying "Bill Gates has enough money to buy me dinner." It's a dreadful idea to have the GIU implement ActionListener.
Something compels me to point out that in
Java 1.0, subclassing a Component was the
only way to handle events, and the ability to
not do it that way was the most touted feature introduced in the first major revision of Java (1.1). So people have known this was a bad idea practically from day one!