Should we use EventQueue.invokeLater for any GUI update in a Java desktop application?

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You only need to use invokeLater when you want to update your UI from another thread that is not the UI thread (event dispatch thread).

Suppose you have a handler for a button-click and you want to change the text of a label when someone clicks the button. Then it’s perfectly save to set the label text directly. This is possible because the handler for the button-click event runs in the UI thread.

Suppose, however, that on another button-click you start another thread that does some work and after this work is finished, you want to update the UI. Then you use invokeLater. This method ensures that your UI update is executed on the UI thread.

So in a lot of cases, you do not need invokeLater, you can simply do UI updates directly. If you’re not sure, you can use isDispatchThread to check whether your current code is running inside the event dispatch thread.

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