Java SE (Java Platform, Standard Edition)

I've read some places that event listeners are called in the order they are added. But I've also read that they may not be. Anyone know for sure? At least with regards to the standard AWT/Swing classes?

If they do run in order added.... Then can someone smack me upside the head and point out the "issues" there might be with using a method like this here that I wrote to install a listener "first" in the list? Of course, instead of using reflection, I could implement it with specific components, but this would work (more or less) for any Component, instead of writing dozens of listener-type- and component-type-specific versions.

public static boolean addEventListener(Component comp, EventListener listener) {
	try {
		Class listenerClass = listener.getClass();
		String listenerName = listenerClass.getName().substring(listenerClass.getName().lastIndexOf("."));
		EventListener[] listeners = (EventListener[])comp.getListeners(listenerClass);
		Method addMethod = comp.getClass().getMethod("add"+listenerName, new Class[]{ listenerClass });
		Method removeMethod = comp.getClass().getMethod("remove"+listenerName, new Class[]{ listenerClass });
		for(int i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) {
			removeMethod.invoke(comp, new Object[]{ listeners[i] });
		}
		addMethod.invoke(comp, new Object[]{ listener });
		for(int i = 0; i < listeners.length; i++) {
			addMethod.invoke(comp, new Object[]{ listeners[i] });
		}
		return true;
	} catch(Exception e) {}
	return false;
}