Why is it important to use invokeLater?

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99% of the time either code will work.

However, Swing was designed such that all updates to Swing components should be done on the Event Dispatch Thread (EDT). Read the Swing tutorial on Concurrency for more information.

The problem is the 1% of the time when it might not work. You don’t want to waste time trying to debug random problems.

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