Interface Event

All Superinterfaces:

Mirror

All Known Subinterfaces:

AccessWatchpointEvent, BreakpointEvent, ClassPrepareEvent, ClassUnloadEvent, ExceptionEvent, LocatableEvent, MethodEntryEvent, MethodExitEvent, ModificationWatchpointEvent, MonitorContendedEnteredEvent, MonitorContendedEnterEvent, MonitorWaitedEvent, MonitorWaitEvent, StepEvent, ThreadDeathEvent, ThreadStartEvent, VMDeathEvent, VMDisconnectEvent, VMStartEvent, WatchpointEvent

public interface Event
extends Mirror

An occurrence in a target VM that is of interest to a debugger. Event is the common superinterface for all events (examples include BreakpointEvent, ExceptionEvent, ClassPrepareEvent). When an event occurs, an instance of Event as a component of an EventSet is enqueued in the VirtualMachine's EventQueue.

Since:

1.3

See Also:

• EventSet
• EventQueue

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
EventRequest	request()

Methods declared in interface Mirror

toString, virtualMachine

Method Details

request

EventRequest request()

Returns:

The EventRequest that requested this event. Some events (eg. VMDeathEvent) may not have a corresponding request and thus will return null.