This method (which the javadoc discourages from using) does not tell the client that it should send such events to the server - unless someone else has registered a listener with the appropriate API, no events are sent by the client. It works directly with events that are generated on the server side, though.
I would recommend using the addListener(listenerImplementation) method. If you absolutely need to register a listener using an arbitrary method, see the protected method AbstractComponent.addListener(eventIdentifier, eventType, target, method) that is used by addListener(FocusListener) etc.