What kind of behaviour causes an interrupted exception?

Question

I\'m relatively new to Threading in Java and I\'ve noticed that everytime I use Thread.sleep() I have to catch InterrupetdException.

What kind of behaviour causes th

Answer 1

Well if some other Thread calls thread.interupt(), while the thread is sleeping, you'll get the Exception. And yes, you can probably just put try..catch arround the sleep() and ignore it ;)