A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
I had a ActionListener that I wanted to use within an ActionMap, which requires an Action. I had to subclass AbstractAction to put it in the ActionMap:
Action a= new AbstractAction(){
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
        ActionListenerThing.actionPerformed(e);
    }
};

Considering the simplicity of subclassing this, would it not be easier for the user in this situation to have a factory method that does all this for the user:
Action a = AbstractAction.createAction(ActionListenerThing, null, null);

public static AbstractAction createAction(ActionListener listener, String name, Icon icon){....}






JUSTIFICATION :
would make wrapping an ActionListener easier, it seems a good fit in that both are ActionListeners.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
easy to wrap and ActionListener in an AbstractAction
ACTUAL -
must subclass when a wrapper could easily be used.

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look at JDK source of AbstractAction, there is no wrapper method.
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CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
subclass AbstractAction