progress

When a user executes a long running background task an application usually wants to report progress about the task to the user. Application developers often do this by passing a ProgressListener to the background task’s  method and the method uses the ProgressListener to report it’s progress. But you can also design it in another way and I would like to introduce another pattern here. At least I would like to show an example of how to implement a progress object pattern with Javas Swing. The complete example code is available at gitthub: https://github.com/link-intersystems/blog/tree/master/progress-object-pattern. But before I introduce the progress object patten let us take a look at the progress listener concept. Progress listener A progress listener is conceptually a callback that… Read More »Progress Object Pattern