I have a big table containing a button in each cell. These buttons are very similar and do almost the same. If I add an action listener to every button in this way:

tmp.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
   @Override
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
      proposition = proposition + action;
      SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
         public void run() {
            updatePropositionPanel();
         }
      });
   }
});

Actually, every action listener differ from all others by the value of the action. proposition and updatePropositionPanel are a field and a method of the class.

1. First i thought that I can make it shorter if I do not use inner classes. So, I decided to program a new ActionListener class. But than I realized that in this case "proposition" will not be visible to the instances of this class.

2. Then I decided to add the actionPerformed method to the current class and do that: addActionListener(this). But than I realized that I do not know how give arguments to the actionPerformed method.

So, how does it work. Can I add an action listener in a short and elegent way?