Java Alley | The New AWT Event Model in Java 1.1 (Web Techniques, Aug 1997)

///: Button2New.java
* Capturing button presses
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*; // Must add this
import java.applet.*;
public class Button2New extends Applet {
  Button b1, b2;
  public void init() {
    b1 = new Button("Button 1");
    b2 = new Button("Button 2");
    b1.addActionListener(new B1());
    b2.addActionListener(new B2());
    add(b1);
    add(b2);
  class B1 implements ActionListener {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
      getAppletContext().showStatus("Button 1");
    }
  class B2 implements ActionListener {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
      getAppletContext().showStatus("Button 2");
    }
  /* The old way:
  public boolean action(Event evt, Object arg) {
    if(evt.target.equals(b1))
      getAppletContext().showStatus("Button 1");
    else if(evt.target.equals(b2))
      getAppletContext().showStatus("Button 2");
    // Let the base class handle it:
    else return super.action(evt, arg);
    return true; // We've handled it here
  */
} ///:~