I have a JTextField that represents a day, such as "Sunday", when I left mouse click on it, it changes background color, when I right mouse click on it, a pop up menu comes up, after I click on a menu item, such as "1st of month", it gets the value, closes the menu and then change the bgcolor, my code looks like this :

    JTextField dayHeading=new JTextField("Su");
......
    final JPopupMenu Pmenu;
    JMenuItem menuItem;
    Pmenu=new JPopupMenu();
    menuItem=new JMenuItem("1st of month");
    Pmenu.add(menuItem);
    menuItem=new JMenuItem("2nd of month");
    Pmenu.add(menuItem);
......
    menuItem.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter()
    {
      public void mouseReleased(final MouseEvent e)
      {
        System.out.println(((JMenuItem)e.getComponent()).getText());
        onHeadingClicked(e);  // Error : java.lang.ClassCastException: javax.swing.JMenuItem cannot be cast to javax.swing.JTextField
                              // How to get the orininal JTextField event that started this pop up menu, so I can pass it onto  onHeadingClicked() ?
      }
    });
......
    dayHeading.setEditable(false);
    dayHeading.setFocusable(false);
    dayHeading.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter()
    {
        public void mouseReleased(final MouseEvent evt)
        {
          if (SwingUtilities.isLeftMouseButton(evt)) onHeadingClicked(evt);
          else if (SwingUtilities.isRightMouseButton(evt)) Pmenu.show(evt.getComponent(),evt.getX(),evt.getY());
        }
    });

......
    void onHeadingClicked(final java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt)
    {
      final javax.swing.JTextField fld=(javax.swing.JTextField) evt.getSource();
...
    }

My question is : in the menuItem.addMouseListener section, how to get the orininal JTextField event that started this pop up menu, so I can pass it onto onHeadingClicked() ?