No, the Adapter classes are used to provide default implementations of listener interfaces so a caller isn't required to implement every method. AWT has similar adapters.
On Apr 21, 2010, at 5:32 PM, Alejandro Vilar wrote: > Hi, just an observation but there are many places where this anti-pattern > appears, for example ComponentListener.Adapter, anybody aware of that? > > Refs: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_interface > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/static-import.html > > Cheers, > -Alejandro > >
