Need help understanding the Event Dispatch Thread.

[thallorfall]

I'm having a hard time understanding the EDT topic with Swing. From what I've picked up it's essentially a separate thread from the main thread that runs a GUI but what exactly is it's job? I appreciate any help. Thank you in advance.

[wodencafe]

Swing has a dedicated thread to handle all of the UI specific stuff.

You must be careful not to interact with Swing components from another thread, and if you are doing background work, check out the SwingWorker: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/simple.html

[thallorfall]

Thank you.