Java Development

[andemartini]

Im looking to develop an app that has a background service and a GUI front end (2 entry points).  I understand how to have a shared runtime store so that the GUI may access data/events from the background service.  But how can I spawn a thread as part of the background entrypoint, while in the GUI entrypoint.  Should I call app.invokeLater() on the background app?  Is that illegal to do if you are not in the context of that app? 

[simon_hain]

i would suggest to use global events or the runtimestore.

[andemartini]

Thank you for your response.  I think I should clarify my question:

Say that there is a runtime store object with a method that I can call to have the background app do something.  In this method a thread will be spawned.  But I want this thread running in the context of the background app, not on the UI app that called the method.  How do I acheive this?

[simon_hain · Accepted solution]

send your background application a notification using the global event.

invokelater on the application instance should also works, but seems somehow dirty to me

[andemartini]

You are right, that works!  Thank you.