The Java Specialists' Newsletter
Issue 101b2005-01-19 Category: GUI Java version: Sun JDK 1.5.0_01

It is very dangerous sending out code samples that one does not understand fully. So it was with the last newsletter. Fortunately Aleksey Gureev pointed out to me that the main problem was not with the Swing event thread, but rather with calling a static method from another thread before the static initializer block has completed. For example, the following code displays the same problem:

public class StrangeProblem2  {
  static {
    new StrangeProblem2();
  }

  private static void staticMethod() {
    System.out.println("This is never reached");
  }

  private StrangeProblem2() {
     Thread t = new Thread() {
      public void run() {
        System.out.println("We will now call the static method...");
        staticMethod();
        System.out.println("Static method was called.");
      }
    };
    t.start();

    try {
      t.join();
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
  }
}
  

Kind regards

Heinz

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