| Class | Purpose |
| ActionEvent | This is an event that indicates a component-defined action occurred, such as clicking a button. |
| AdjustmentEvent | emitted by adjustable objects |
| AncestorEvent | It tells a child component that an event occurred with one of the parent components. |
| ComponentEvent | indicates a component moved, changed size, became visible or invisible, etc. This event is for notification purposes only. |
| HierarchyEvent | This event indicates some change to the component hierarchy to which a component belongs. |
| InputMethodEvent | This event fires when text is entered into an appropriate component. Anytime the text changes, for any reason, the input method sends an event. |
| InternalFrameEvent | It is an AWTEvent that adds support for JInternalFrame objects as the event source. It has the same event types as WindowEvent. |
| InvocationEvent | This event will execute the run() method on a Runnable when dispatched by the AWT event dispatcher thread. |
| ItemEvent | This event indicates that an item was selected or deselected. You will see this associated frequently with list boxes. |
| TextEvent | This event indicates that an object's text changed. |
