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

Some advices from Java Concurrency in Practice:

• Propagate the exception (possibly after some task-specific cleanup), making your method an interruptible blocking method, too; or
• Restore the interruption status so that code higher up on the call stack can deal with it.
• Only code that implements a thread's interruption policy may swallow an interruption request. General-purpose task and library code should never swallow interruption requests.