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Wrong thread for swing method invocation JAVA-W1062

Bug risk
Major

Methods show(), setVisible(), and pack() must not be invoked on the main thread.

With each invocation, these methods create the peer for the associated JFrame. Creation of the peer involves creation of the event dispatch thread. At this point, the event dispatch thread could be in the middle of notifying listeners while show(), setVisible(), or pack() is still executing. As a result, we could have two threads going through the Swing component-based GUI at the same time, which is a serious issue that might lead to deadlocks or other multithreading bugs.

Bad Practice

public void method() {
    // These are problematic.
    frame.show();
    frame.setVisible(true);
    frame.pack();
}

Recommended

Consider calling these methods on the event dispatch thread.

public void method() {
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            frame.show();
            frame.setVisible(true);
            frame.pack();
        }
    }
}

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