While tracing Swing’s single-threaded event model from Java 1.0 to its origins in the JavaBeans component model and AWT, he reveals an initialization bug in a commonly used start-up pattern.

To address these complaints, the Swing components, and the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) that support them, were added to 1998's JDK 1.2 release. The Swing components, and the framework Swing provided ...