/**
* If this object has changed, as indicated by the <code>hasChanged</code> method, then notify all
* of its observers and then call the <code>clearChanged</code> method to indicate that this
* object has no longer changed.
*
* <p>Each observer has its <code>update</code> method called with two arguments: this observable
* object and the <code>arg</code> argument.
*
* @param notification any object.
* @see java.util.Observable#clearChanged()
* @see java.util.Observable#hasChanged()
* @see java.util.Observer#update(java.util.Observable, java.lang.Object)
*/
private void notifyListeners(Notification notification) {
/*
* a temporary array buffer, used as a snapshot of the state of
* current Listeners.
*/
Object[] arrLocal;
synchronized (this) {
/* We don't want the Observer doing callbacks into
* arbitrary code while holding its own Monitor.
* The code where we extract each Observable from
* the Vector and store the state of the Observer
* needs synchronization, but notifying observers
* does not (should not). The worst result of any
* potential race-condition here is that:
* 1) a newly-added Observer will miss a
* notification in progress
* 2) a recently unregistered Observer will be
* wrongly notified when it doesn't care
*/
if (!changed) return;
arrLocal = listeners.toArray();
clearChanged();
}
for (int i = arrLocal.length - 1; i >= 0; i--)
((RuntimeModelListener) arrLocal[i]).update(this, notification);
}
