Creating an interval in java

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I need to run a function every 10 seconds in my java project. I want it to be like an infinite loop yet without using while(true) or thread.sleep...

Any ideas?

Have you thought about anything yourself yet? Maybe you should look at the `Timer` class. — Michael Faisst, Nov 22 '16 at 14:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 22 '16 at 14:09

You can use a Timer with the method:

Timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(TimerTask task, long delay, long period)

Here, task is the task you want to execute (derived from TimerTask), period is time in milliseconds between the execution of two tasks and delay is the delay in milliseconds before each execution.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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This is more or less a duplicate of Making a Thread to Sleep for 30 minutes. That question mentions the ScheduledExecutorService, which I've used and been very happy with. It's a bit heavyweight, so Timer may be all that you need. The Java Tutorial has a decent example of how to use that.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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