What is best for class property change observing in a MVC design?

Use PropertyChangeSupport
Observable was added in Java 1.0 and is rarely (if ever) used these days

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/javabeans/properties/bound.html

Ahh ok, that was what I needed to know. May have some questions regarding the java.beans setup later on, so Ill keep the question open for now.

Hmm I cant make it work. I have made a specialized label for listening and changing according to changes in the model object. The code is attched "StatusLabelListener". Furthermore I have added the PropertyChangeSupport to my model object and added a method "addPropertyChangeListener to it for addidng the "StatusLabelListener". The listener is added as below:

StatusLabelListener statusBar = new StatusLabelListener();
link.addPropertyChangeListener(statusBar);

and the function for andding in the model object (instance named "link" here) is as simple as below:

public void addPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener pcl) {
     this.addPropertyChangeListener(pcl);
}

All I want is that when a status text property in the model changes then a status label ion the gui follows, and of course without having references of components in the gui in the model object. I tried following the examples, but nothing seems to work.

Sorry forgot the "StatusLabelListener" code. Furthermore I have learned that the application simply terminates when reaching the line of code where the listener is addded to the lnk listener list:

link.addPropertyChangeListener(statusBar);

import java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
 
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.SwingConstants;
 
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class StatusLabelListener extends JLabel implements PropertyChangeListener {
 
	public StatusLabelListener() {
		super("",SwingConstants.RIGHT);
	}
	
	@Override
	public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
		this.setText((String)evt.getNewValue());
	}
}

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Youre right! One of my examples is wrong, the others refer to the Support object I can see. Thanks!