How to make a Thread run for particular amount of Time

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Hi ,

I want to start a Thread , that actually runs for one minute and stops after it .


Please let me know how to achive this . Thanks .

[Vinoth Kumar Kannan]

You can join on a thread for some time and after the join if it still is alive, interrupt to kill it.

Thread t = new ThreadJob();
t.join(_1_MIN);
if(t.isAlive()) t.interrupt();

Your thread must be able to handle the interruption that is going to occur.
This is one of the possible ways... may be someone else will come up with some more possibilities

[Ravi Kiran Va]

You can join on a thread for some time

Thanks for your reply , But do this operation , there should be two threads .

Right now , a normal java class is calling this Thread.

[Lester Burnham]

Ravi Kiran V wrote:But do this operation , there should be two threads .

Right now , a normal java class is calling this Thread.

Non-sequitur?

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Non-sequitur?

what do you mean by above ??

[Lester Burnham]

Non_sequitur_(logic)

[Rob Spoor]

To be honest, I come to the same conclusion.

The current thread starts this new thread. It should not block afterwards. However, this new thread needs to be limited in time. Using join on this thread from the current thread will block the current thread. To prevent that, the current thread starts two threads:
- the timed thread
- a thread that will call join on the timed thread

[Vinoth Kumar Kannan]

Rob Prime wrote:To be honest, I come to the same conclusion.

The current thread starts this new thread. It should not block afterwards. However, this new thread needs to be limited in time. Using join on this thread from the current thread will block the current thread. To prevent that, the current thread starts two threads:
- the timed thread
- a thread that will call join on the timed thread

2 threads - thats really nice! Good one,Rob!