Hi John, "John C. Turnbull" <[email protected]> wrote on 06/04/2009 04:56:21 PM:
> I know that all SVG DOM manipulations need to be done on a dedicated > thread but is this thread the same as the AWT Event Dispatch Thread > (EDT)? No. > If not, why does it need to be a different thread? If we used the AWT Event Dispatch thread then reading/parsing and rendering would block the user interface. Since those operations are long (sometimes several seconds) it seemed like a very bad idea to design Batik so that it blocked the Swing thread.
