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Is it possible to create a separate background thread which would separately do some stuff?

I've tried the following program but it doesn't work as I expect.

public class Test {

private static class UpdaterThread extends Thread {

private final int TIMEOUT = 3000;

public void run() {

while (true) {

try {

Thread.sleep(TIMEOUT);

System.out.println("3 seconds passed");

} catch (InterruptedException ex) {

}

}

}

}

/**

* @param args

* the command line arguments

*/

public static void main(String[] args) {

try {

Thread u = new UpdaterThread();

u.start();

while (true) {

System.out.println("--");

}

} catch (Exception ex) {

ex.printStackTrace();

}

}

}

I expected that every 3 seconds "3 seconds passed" will be printed in the flow of multiple "--" strings.

In fact "3 seconds passed" is never printed. Why? And how can I create a background thread which would do something independantly from the main thread?

解决方案

Use java.util.TimerTask and java.util.Timer:

Timer t = new Timer();

t.scheduleAtFixedRate(

new TimerTask()

{

public void run()

{

System.out.println("3 seconds passed");

}

},

0, // run first occurrence immediately

3000); // run every three seconds