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Old SwingWorker
An Old SwingWorker Example
New SwingWorker
A New SwingWorker Example

Some Sun Java folks came up with a class that they called SwingWorker, to illustrate good practice using a worker thread model.

Note that a version of the SwingWorker class was included in Java 6.0 (javax.swing.SwingWorker); it was not the same as the original SwingWorker.  
Before 6.0, you had to download it separately.