Module jdk.jdi
Package com.sun.jdi.event

# Interface Event

All Superinterfaces:
  `Mirror`

All Known Subinterfaces:
  `AccessWatchpointEvent`, `BreakpointEvent`, `ClassPrepareEvent`, `ClassUnloadEvent`, `ExceptionEvent`, `LocatableEvent`, `MethodEntryEvent`, `MethodExitEvent`, `ModificationWatchpointEvent`, `MonitorContendedEnteredEvent`, `MonitorContendedEnterEvent`, `MonitorWaitedEvent`, `MonitorWaitEvent`, `StepEvent`, `ThreadDeathEvent`, `ThreadStartEvent`, `VMDeathEvent`, `VMDisconnectEvent`, `VMStartEvent`, `WatchpointEvent`

public interface Event extends Mirror
An occurrence in a target VM that is of interest to a debugger. Event is the common superinterface for all events (examples include `BreakpointEvent`, `ExceptionEvent`, `ClassPrepareEvent`). When an event occurs, an instance of Event as a component of an `EventSet` is enqueued in the `VirtualMachine`'s `EventQueue`.

Since:
  1.3
See Also:
  - `EventSet`
  - `EventQueue`

## Method Summary

Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`EventRequest`
`request()`

### Methods declared in interface com.sun.jdi.Mirror

`toString, virtualMachine`

## Method Details

### request

EventRequest request()

Returns:
  The `EventRequest` that requested this event. Some events (eg. `VMDeathEvent`) may not have a cooresponding request and thus will return null.