Manage GUI and EDT in a multi-task application

Question

I developed a Java application for creating and extracting an archive - like WinRAR. You can create several archives at the same time with multithreading. And recently, I wa

Answer 1

1. Put and display JProgressBar in a JDialog, and don't create a new Top-Level Container. Create that once and re-use that

2. Long timed and heavy code would be better redirected to the BackGround Task

3. You can move with progress in JProgressBar from a background task

   • only if GUI related code is done on EDT more Concurrency in Swing

   • and there are two correct ways to do it

     • by using SwingWorker

     • from Runnable#Thread but GUI rellated code must be wrapped into invokeLater()