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From: markspace on 17 Mar 2010 14:28
Tony Yan wrote:

> Thanks, Arne! I didn't know "Event_dispatching_thread" can be called as
> EDT.


First, it's Event Dispatch Thread, with no under-bars. As in three
normal English words in a normal English language sentence. People who
write English don't_normally_go_around_putting_a_lot_of_under-bars in
their sentences.

Second, it's been called the EDT by Sun for a long time, so I guess you
haven't been paying attention. For example here's some release notes by
Sun for JDK 1.5 that use the acronym EDT. Note these release notes are
three years old:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html
From: Roedy Green on 17 Mar 2010 14:53
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:37:51 -0400, Tony Yan <noreply(a)example.net>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>
>So when do people start using EDT to refer to
>"Event_dispatching_thread"?

I think the term came into common use when Swing first came out. AWT
attempted to be thread safe without programmer awareness.
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From: Roedy Green on 17 Mar 2010 14:56
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:36:46 -0400, Tony Yan <noreply(a)example.net>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>
>Thanks, Arne! I didn't know "Event_dispatching_thread" can be called as EDT.

Again the Java glossary is your friend for clearing up such mysteries.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/edt.html
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com

Responsible Development is the style of development I aspire to now. It can be summarized by answering the question, �How would I develop if it were my money?� I�m amazed how many theoretical arguments evaporate when faced with this question.
~ Kent Beck (born: 1961 age: 49) , evangelist for extreme programming.
From: Arne Vajhøj on 17 Mar 2010 19:43
On 17-03-2010 13:36, Tony Yan wrote:
> On 3/16/2010 6:42 PM, Arne Vajh�j wrote:
>> On 16-03-2010 18:20, Tony Yan wrote:
>>> On 3/16/2010 12:08 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 3/16/2010 8:14 AM, Sam Takoy wrote:
>>>>> In my code (will provide an example if necessary),
>>>>
>>>> Always a good idea.
>>>>
>>>> I have a JLabel that
>>>>> doesn't change it's content after label.setText("new-content"). The
>>>>> text
>>>>> does change after I resize the parent JInternalFrame. I have never
>>>>> encountered this behavior before and I am wondering what this could be
>>>>> caused by...
>>>>
>>>> Are you calling setText() from the EDT?
>>>>
>>>> Are you blocking the EDT?
>>>
>>> Knute, what is EDT?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_dispatching_thread
>>
>> And EDT is something you should know about when programming GUI
>> in Java.
>
> Thanks, Arne! I didn't know "Event_dispatching_thread" can be called as
> EDT.

It is known as EDT.

Most people will know what EDT is but have to look it up to verify
what it is an abbreviation of.

Arne
From: Arne Vajhøj on 17 Mar 2010 19:45
On 17-03-2010 13:37, Tony Yan wrote:
> On 3/17/2010 2:02 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:20:07 -0400, Tony Yan<noreply(a)example.net>
>> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>>
>>> Knute, what is EDT?
>>
>> Oh dear. You absolutely have to understand the EDT to use Swing.
>>
>> See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/swing.html
>> and follow the links about threads.
>
> So when do people start using EDT to refer to
> "Event_dispatching_thread"?

Probably around 1995.

> And also SSH for "Spring, Struct, Hibernate"?

Not yet.

Arne

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