Running a Java Thread in intervals

Question

I have a thread that needs to be executed every 10 seconds. This thread contains several calls (12 - 15) to a database on another server. Additionally, it also accesses arou

Answer 1

Have a look at the Timer and TimerTask classes. They are exactly what you want.

You can make a TimerTask implementation that takes your thread object in a constructor.

The run method will then call the threads run method.

// Perhaps something like this
Timer t = new Timer();
t.scheduleAtFixedRate(yourTimerTask, 0, 10 * 1000);
// Hopefully your task takes less than 12 seconds