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

The primary case is when someone calls Thread.interrupt() on your thread.

It may be safer to throw a RuntimeException if it happens when you're really not expecting it, but for very simple cases you can probably ignore it.