What is the equivalent of javascript setTimeout in Java?

Question

I need to implement a function to run after 60 seconds of clicking a button. Please help, I used the Timer class, but I think that that is not the best way.

Answer 1

You can simply use Thread.sleep() for this purpose. But if you are working in a multithreaded environment with a user interface, you would want to perform this in the separate thread to avoid the sleep to block the user interface.

try{
    Thread.sleep(60000);
    // Then do something meaningful...
}catch(InterruptedException e){
    e.printStackTrace();
}