How to stop the task scheduled in java.util.Timer class

Question

I am using java.util.Timer class and I am using its schedule method to perform some task, but after executing it for 6 times I have to stop its task.

How

Answer 1

You should stop the task that you have scheduled on the timer: Your timer:

Timer t = new Timer();
TimerTask tt = new TimerTask() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        //do something
    };
}
t.schedule(tt,1000,1000);

In order to stop:

tt.cancel();
t.cancel(); //In order to gracefully terminate the timer thread

Notice that just cancelling the timer will not terminate ongoing timertasks.