Question

When developing java guis (e.g. swing) in eclipse, is there a built-in feature (or plugin) that allows one to monitor all the events that are fired?

Answer 1

You can also write an AWTEventListener on your own. Just add the following lines to your program.

Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener(new AWTEventListener() {
    public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent event) {
        System.out.println(event);
    }
}, -1);

Replace the output with anything you like. You can also listen to particular events only by changing -1 to some constants from AWTEvent.