How to use sleep without thread implementation

[Sudhakar Veluru]

Can I use sleep method in my application without using threads. is there any System.sleep() kind of thing??

[Rahul Rathore]

Why do you want to do that?
Thread.sleep() is a static method, which sleeps the current thread. You do NOT need to create any thread.

[Rahul Mahindrakar]

Hi,
You can use what Rathore has specified or you can try to get the current thread and use sleep if you want by
Thread.currentThread().sleep()

class demo123 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
System.out.println("Hello World!");
        Thread.sleep(30);
        System.out.println("Hello World1 !");        
        Thread.currentThread().sleep(5000);
        System.out.println("Hello World1 2");
        
}
}

[This message has been edited by Rahul Mahindrakar (edited April 03, 2001).]

[Rahul Rathore]

With respect, we do NOT need to get reference to the current thread. That reference is meaningless because sleep is a static method, and it always sleeps the current thread only. sleep() can never affect any thread other than the current thread. We don't need reference to an instance of a class to invoke a static method of the class.

[sandeep bagati]

Originally posted by Sudhakar Veluru:
Can I use sleep method in my application without using threads. is there any System.sleep() kind of thing??

The basic concept of java is a thread is always running in your application program.So sleep without threads is meaningless.Sleep means to sleep a thread.And when u say Thread.sleep() in main() it is the main thread u are commanding to sleep.

[Rahul Mahindrakar]

Yes Rathore you are right. I have gone through your earlier posts and I really appreciate the work you are doing here. Great going.

[This message has been edited by Rahul Mahindrakar (edited April 05, 2001).]

[Rahul Rathore]

Thanks. Its my pleasure.