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The Problem
Update Swing Only From The EDT
Avoid Too Much Work in The EDT
Providing Visual Feedback
Using a Worker Thread
Using SwingWorker

Swing presents some particular problems relating to multi-threaded programs.

Since every Java GUI program is always multi-threaded, it's important to understand what these problems are, and how to circumvent them.