How do I cap my framerate at 60 fps in Java?

Question

I am writting a simple game, and I want to cap my framerate at 60 fps without making the loop eat my cpu. How would I do this?

Answer 1

There is a lot of good information here already, but I wanted to share one problem that I had with these solutions, and the solution to that. If, despite all these solutions, your game/window seems to skip (especially under X11), try calling Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().sync() once per frame.