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/*
* @(#)ActiveEvent.java 1.2 98/07/01
*
* Copyright 1995-1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
* 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California, 94303, U.S.A.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This software is the confidential and proprietary information
* of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You
* shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall use
* it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement
* you entered into with Sun.
*/
package java.awt.peer;
/**
* An interface for events that know how dispatch themselves.
* By implementing this interface an event can be placed upon the event
* queue and this method will be called to dispatch the event. This allows
* objects that are not components to arrange for behavior to occur on
* a different thread from the current thread.
*
* Peer implementations can use this facility to avoid making upcalls
* that could potentially cause a deadlock.
*
* @author Timothy Prinzing
* @version 1.2 07/01/98
*/
public interface ActiveEvent {
/**
* Dispatch the event to it's target, listeners of the events source,
* or do whatever it is this event is supposed to do.
*/
public void dispatch();
}