Apache NetBeansWhat APIs come with built-in background thread handling?
A few APIs come with built in multi-threading - if you want your code to run on a background thread, you don’t have to do any special set up to do that.
Specifically they are
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The Actions API - if you override
asynchronousto return true (or don’t override it - for historical reasons this is the default), your action’sperformActionmethod will run in the background -
The Nodes API - to compute node children that are expensive to create, use
ChildFactoryand specifytrueas the boolean argument toChildren.create() -
Various parsing APIs - for syntax highlighting languages and so forth - usually you just provide a task to do, and it will automatically call you in the background when a reparse is being done
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QuickSearch API - searchers are typically called in background thread by infrastructure in SearchProvider.evaluate(…)
