When does Java's Thread.sleep throw InterruptedException?

Question

When does Java\'s Thread.sleep throw InterruptedException? Is it safe to ignore it? I am not doing any multithreading. I just want to wait for a few seconds before retryi

Answer 1

The Java Specialists newsletter (which I can unreservedly recommend) had an interesting article on this, and how to handle the InterruptedException. It's well worth reading and digesting.