Passing JMenuItem to Controller Class

Question

I Have 3 sets of JMenuItem on a View class of the MVC framework. I want to refer to them in the controll class EventController. Can someone show me thi

Answer 1

Let your model export instances of Action that can be added to menus and buttons as needed. Because database access is inherently asynchronous, let each such action use a worker thread to query the database in the background while updating the table mode on the EDT. See also A Swing Architecture Overview concerning the relationship between Swing components and models.

Addendum: Can you show me a code sample?

• FileMenu is a very basic example of using Action to encapsulate functionality.

• The example cited here uses Action more extensively in a JToolBar.

• JHotDraw, cited here, is a very complex example that changes the available Action instances based on context, as discussed here.

• This example offers a general examination of MVC in Swing.