How to stop immediately the task scheduled in Java.util.Timer class

Question

I tried everything. This one too How to stop the task scheduled in Java.util.Timer class

I have one task that implements java.util.TimerTask

I call that t

Answer 1

if your timer is using some sort of file/socket etc, you can close that object from outside the timer, and the timer task will throw an exception, and you can use it to stop the timer.

but in general you need some sort of poison pill to successfully stop a separate thread/timer.