John Zukowski explains Java's EventHandler class on IBM's developerWorks. "Many developers create anonymous inner classes for event handling. For simple event handling, inner classes can be a real hassle. Luckily, Java 1.4 introduces the EventHandler class, which relies on the dynamic generation of listeners to ease the task at hand. Though the new features are typically meant for the IDE vendor to use, in this article columnist John Zukowski shows you how you can use them for hand coding, too."

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