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On 5/14/2014 10:12 AM, Sarah Connor wrote:

> Alternatively ... if your non-component logic has to do with some program
> state that the component displays and/or allows the user to manipulate,
> then you should probably separate it out into a model object and make the
> JComponent subclass a view object, similar to the existing ListModel and
> various list controls (JList, JComboBox, ...).
>


This is what I would prefer.  MVC is neither composition nor 
inheritance.  It just makes separate classes which aren't related and 
have no knowledge of each other.  This is vastly superior in many cases.