JButton and ActionListeners

Question

I would like to change the ActionListeners registered to a JButton when the user clicks on a JButton. However there is a problem with this (see below). A typical procedure would go as follows:
1) User clicks on button
2) Get the appropriate listener from a list of listeners
3) Remove the current listener(s) from the button
4) Add the new listener(s)
However, for some reason, the instructions of the new listener class are getting called. Is there a way of preventing this and if so, can someone please guide me in the right direction?
Stephen

Answer 1

It does not seem to happen like what you have said. Please see the test code below:
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
public class Temp extends JFrame {
     private JButton b = null;
     public Temp() {
          super("Test");
          setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          b = new JButton("Click Me!");
          b.addActionListener(new ActionListener1());
          getContentPane().add(b);
          pack();
          setVisible(true);
     class ActionListener1 implements ActionListener {
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
               System.out.println("Action Listener 1");
               b.removeActionListener(this);
               b.addActionListener(new ActionListener2());
     class ActionListener2 implements ActionListener {
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
               System.out.println("Action Listener 2");
     public static void main(String args []) {
          new Temp();
}The first time you click the button action listener 1 code gets executed. From the second time onwards the action listener 2 code gets executed.
Hope this helps
Sai Pullabhotla