Setting a maximum execution time for a method/thread

Question

I have a method, which writes to the database. The requirement is to make sure that this method does not execute after a certain time elapses. If it returns before that, the

Answer 1

There is also an AspectJ solution for that with jcabi-aspects library:

@Timeable(limit = 5, unit = TimeUnit.SECONDS)
public String writeToDb() {
  // writeToDb
}

There is an article explaining it further: Limit Java Method Execution Time