Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: should I use java.awt.* only or also use javax.swing in applets? Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 20:05:54 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 03:06:05 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="l8hxu7VxWTF0R70MQnZDgg"; logging-data="22034"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19dZvSnMo7TIPwsKjlV8IBKIIDgohAoZUQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:ub8vgmzCCVijL5xK/STu8VI6tXc= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3635 On 5/5/2011 2:20 PM, John B. Matthews wrote: > I'll have to throw in an "amen" and note that the forthcoming version 7 > appears to have quietly deprecated the thread-safety of several methods, > including JTextArea's append(). Yes, and getText() as well. It's a pity, because they just broke a bunch of code, and from what I could see it would not have taken much to fix getText() so that it was in fact thread safe.