Making Java events

[Jasonfran]

Hello,

I am making an IRC application and I was wondering how I could make a simple event that gets called like onMessage() every time a IRC message comes through so I can then do something like this in my main class:

public void onMessage(String message){
    System.out.println(message);
    //or Handle commands
}

I think it has something to do with interfaces but I can't find a tutorial on how I could do this. I am still learning about java. Thanks

[JamesCherrill]

It's called the "Observer" pattern - sorry, no time to explain right now, but Google it for lots of examples etc.

[JamesCherrill]

... this link is a good intro
http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com/java-programming-tutorials/7321-how-use-observer-pattern.html