How to generate events from graphics generated by Java2D

Question

I have made an Ellipse with the help of java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D

Now, I want that whenever user clicks on that ellipse, an event is generated so that I can listen to that event and peform subsequent tasks based on the ellipse which generated that event.

Answer 1

Here is a simple example of an object drawing program that demonstrates click, drag and multiple selection. Also consider JGraph, which is a much more advanced library for graph visualization.