What is it you're confused about? The whole oberver-observable thing or implementing the graphical observers?
If you need to find out about observable stuff you'd probably be best of checking out a book on design
patterns - it's also called 'publish-subscribe'.
Here's what I remenber: Basically, there is a class which holds data, and one or more other classes that observe it.
When the observed class's data gets changed, it tells all the observers this, and sends them the new data.
normally the observed class would have an array (or similar) of pointers to 'observers'. To be notified about changes (to observe the class), an observing class would have to 'register' itself with the observed class (the observed class would need some method to register observers).
Then, whenever the observed class's data changed, it woulld go through it's registered observers and let them know. It may send it's new data at the same time, or (as is ususally the case) it might be down to the observer to get the data.
To implement this in Java, you might want to check out the Observable class and the Observer interface.
