Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition [Electronic resources]

EventObject serves as the superclass for all event objects used by the event model introduced in Java 1.1 for AWT and JavaBeans and also used by Swing in Java 1.2. This class defines a generic type of event; it is extended by the more specific event classes in the java.awt, java.awt.event, java.beans, and javax.swing.event packages. The only common feature shared by all events is a source object, which is the object that, in some way, generated the event. The source object is passed to the EventObject( ) constructor and is returned by the getSource( ) method.

public class

EventObject implements Serializable { // Public Constructors public

EventObject (Object

source ); // Public Instance Methods public Object

getSource ( ); // Public Methods Overriding Object public String

toString ( ); // Protected Instance Fields protected transient Object

source ; }

Subclasses

java.util.prefs.NodeChangeEvent, java.util.prefs.PreferenceChangeEvent, javax.net.ssl.HandshakeCompletedEvent, javax.net.ssl.SSLSessionBindingEvent