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Event-dispatching UI utility class for Java Swing
SwingWorker (in full javax.swing.SwingWorker is a utility class developed by Sun Microsystems for the Swing library of the Java programming language. SwingWorker enables proper use of the event dispatching thread. As of Java 6, javax.swing.SwingWorker is included in the JRE. It resides in the module java.desktop. Wikipedia →
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