How to use TimerTask with lambdas?

Question

As you hopefully know you can use lambdas in Java 8, for example to replace anonymous methods.

An example can be seen here of Java 7 vs Java 8:

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Answer 1

You can also create a Timer easily with lambdas from the Swing API if you want (but not with TimerTask) :

new javax.swing.Timer(1000, (ae) -> this::checkDirectory).start();