Action Listeners - Java

[gam3r]

Hey guys.

I was just wondering, are nested action listeners in java frowned upon in terms of good programming practice?

 

[RobH]

By 'nested' do you mean implmented as an anonymous inner class?

 

[gam3r]

yus

 

[Dfhaii]

No, they're fine as long as you're careful.

It's possible to run into issues with memory not being claimed by GC because you have a reference to 'dead' objects within a listener which should've been removed from something but can't as you don't have a direct reference to it.

 

[gam3r]

Thanks, I was mostly worried because it just made the code look really messy, and rather inefficient?