With this example we are going to demonstrate how to make a Thread sleep. In short, to make a Thread sleep you should:
- Call
sleep(long millis)API method of Thread. The method causes the currently executing thread to sleep (temporarily cease execution) for the specified number of milliseconds, subject to the precision and accuracy of system timers and schedulers. - In the example, we are using a
main()method, where in a loop we call the Thread to sleep for one millisecond. - Every time before the thread sleeps we print out the time so as to check the time between the thread sleeps.
Let’s take a look at the code snippet that follows:
package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.core;
import java.util.Date;
public class SleepThreadExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
System.out.println(i + " " + new Date());
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
}
catch (InterruptedException ie) {
System.out.println("Thread interrupted!" + ie);
}
}
}
Output:
0 Tue Oct 18 23:56:37 EEST 2011
1 Tue Oct 18 23:56:38 EEST 2011
2 Tue Oct 18 23:56:39 EEST 2011
3 Tue Oct 18 23:56:40 EEST 2011
4 Tue Oct 18 23:56:41 EEST 2011
This was an example of how to make a Thread sleep in Java.
