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

From the javadocs:

Class InterruptedException

Thrown when a thread is waiting, sleeping, or otherwise paused for a long time and another thread interrupts it using the interrupt method in class Thread.

Hope that answers your question.