Polish Javadoc for application event infrastructure

spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/ApplicationEvent.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2018 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2019 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import java.util.EventObject;
  *
  * @author Rod Johnson
  * @author Juergen Hoeller
+ * @see org.springframework.context.ApplicationListener
+ * @see org.springframework.context.event.EventListener
  */
 public abstract class ApplicationEvent extends EventObject {
 
@@ -35,8 +37,9 @@ public abstract class ApplicationEvent extends EventObject {
 
 
 	/**
-	 * Create a new ApplicationEvent.
+	 * Create a new {@code ApplicationEvent}.
-	 * @param source the object on which the event initially occurred (never {@code null})
+	 * @param source the object on which the event initially occurred or with
+	 * which the event is associated (never {@code null})
 	 */
 	public ApplicationEvent(Object source) {
 		super(source);
@@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ public abstract class ApplicationEvent extends EventObject {
 
 
 	/**
-	 * Return the system time in milliseconds when the event happened.
+	 * Return the system time in milliseconds when the event occurred.
 	 */
 	public final long getTimestamp() {
 		return this.timestamp;

spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/ApplicationEventPublisher.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2016 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2019 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ package org.springframework.context;
 
 /**
  * Interface that encapsulates event publication functionality.
- * Serves as super-interface for {@link ApplicationContext}.
+ *
+ * <p>Serves as a super-interface for {@link ApplicationContext}.
  *
  * @author Juergen Hoeller
  * @author Stephane Nicoll

spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/ApplicationListener.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2016 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2019 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -20,18 +20,21 @@ import java.util.EventListener;
 
 /**
  * Interface to be implemented by application event listeners.
- * Based on the standard {@code java.util.EventListener} interface
+ *
+ * <p>Based on the standard {@code java.util.EventListener} interface
  * for the Observer design pattern.
  *
- * <p>As of Spring 3.0, an ApplicationListener can generically declare the event type
+ * <p>As of Spring 3.0, an {@code ApplicationListener} can generically declare
- * that it is interested in. When registered with a Spring ApplicationContext, events
+ * the event type that it is interested in. When registered with a Spring
- * will be filtered accordingly, with the listener getting invoked for matching event
+ * {@code ApplicationContext}, events will be filtered accordingly, with the
- * objects only.
+ * listener getting invoked for matching event objects only.
  *
  * @author Rod Johnson
  * @author Juergen Hoeller
- * @param <E> the specific ApplicationEvent subclass to listen to
+ * @param <E> the specific {@code ApplicationEvent} subclass to listen to
+ * @see org.springframework.context.ApplicationEvent
  * @see org.springframework.context.event.ApplicationEventMulticaster
+ * @see org.springframework.context.event.EventListener
  */
 @FunctionalInterface
 public interface ApplicationListener<E extends ApplicationEvent> extends EventListener {

spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/event/ApplicationEventMulticaster.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2017 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2019 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -23,15 +23,16 @@ import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
 
 /**
  * Interface to be implemented by objects that can manage a number of
- * {@link ApplicationListener} objects, and publish events to them.
+ * {@link ApplicationListener} objects and publish events to them.
  *
  * <p>An {@link org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher}, typically
  * a Spring {@link org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext}, can use an
- * ApplicationEventMulticaster as a delegate for actually publishing events.
+ * {@code ApplicationEventMulticaster} as a delegate for actually publishing events.
  *
  * @author Rod Johnson
  * @author Juergen Hoeller
  * @author Stephane Nicoll
+ * @see ApplicationListener
  */
 public interface ApplicationEventMulticaster {
 
@@ -55,21 +56,21 @@ public interface ApplicationEventMulticaster {
 
 	/**
 	 * Remove a listener bean from the notification list.
-	 * @param listenerBeanName the name of the listener bean to add
+	 * @param listenerBeanName the name of the listener bean to remove
 	 */
 	void removeApplicationListenerBean(String listenerBeanName);
 
 	/**
 	 * Remove all listeners registered with this multicaster.
 	 * <p>After a remove call, the multicaster will perform no action
-	 * on event notification until new listeners are being registered.
+	 * on event notification until new listeners are registered.
 	 */
 	void removeAllListeners();
 
 	/**
 	 * Multicast the given application event to appropriate listeners.
 	 * <p>Consider using {@link #multicastEvent(ApplicationEvent, ResolvableType)}
-	 * if possible as it provides a better support for generics-based events.
+	 * if possible as it provides better support for generics-based events.
 	 * @param event the event to multicast
 	 */
 	void multicastEvent(ApplicationEvent event);
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ public interface ApplicationEventMulticaster {
 	 * <p>If the {@code eventType} is {@code null}, a default type is built
 	 * based on the {@code event} instance.
 	 * @param event the event to multicast
-	 * @param eventType the type of event (can be null)
+	 * @param eventType the type of event (can be {@code null})
 	 * @since 4.2
 	 */
 	void multicastEvent(ApplicationEvent event, @Nullable ResolvableType eventType);