What is the difference between listeners and adapters?

Question

I\'m trying to differentiate between listeners and adapters.

Are they pretty much the same but in listeners you have to implement all the methods in the interface, but w

Answer 1

There are several Adapter classes such as the MouseAdapter, KeyAdapter, WindowAdapter that one can extend thus avoiding writing the methods that you don't actuality need.

The thing with interfaces is that you have to write out all the methods you do not need. The Adapter class can further be Sub Classed as a way to override the method required.

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