Will a timer work again after canceling it , and called the schedule method,i get exc

[raminaa niilian]

hi
Thank you for reading my post.
I have a timer , i cancel it once .
now i want to use it again ? should i create the timer and then use its
schedule method ? or i can use it in a cancelled timer?
I tried to use the timer without re-creatig it but it return the following exception.
The task that i want to use is the same as the task it had before cancelling.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Timer already cancelled.
at java.util.Timer.sched(Timer.java:354)
at java.util.Timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(Timer.java:296)
....
at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
[catch] at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)

thank you
[ October 30, 2005: Message edited by: raminaa niilian ]

[Rob Spoor]

Well the exception says it all: you cannot restart the timer after it has been cancelled. Nearly the same as Threads.

There is only one option, and that is to create a new timer and use that.