Observable

Class Observable

public class Observable
extends Object

This class represents an observable object, or "data" in the model-view paradigm. It can be subclassed to represent an object that the application wants to have observed.

An observable object can have one or more observers. An observer may be any object that implements interface Observer. After an observable instance changes, an application calling the Observable's notifyObservers method causes all of its observers to be notified of the change by a call to their update method.

The order in which notifications will be delivered is unspecified. The default implementation provided in the Observable class will notify