Stop processing

[Mahesh Mamani]

Hi,
In the main method, after doing some processes, start the Thread. In the run method check whether a file exists or not...
But this check is done after every 7 minutes...Wht is want is there any way out by checking the existence of file in the main method and when this file exist , do not hinder with the updateDB() method(as this is related to DB update), should execute fully...
Any help???

main(){
// Do some stuff
th.start();
} // END of main method
public void run(){
try{
while(stopProcFile.exists() == false){
try{
checkForNewSymbols();
}catch(Exception e1){
System.out.println("Exception in checkForNewSymbols RUN is "+e1.getMessage());
}
// Sleep for 2 minutes, then UPDATE Database by calling updateDB()
System.out.println("Sleeping after checkfornewsymbols...");
Thread.sleep(120000);
try{
updateDB();
}catch(Exception e2){
System.out.println("Exception in updateDB RUN is "+e2.getMessage());
}
System.out.println("Sleeping after updatedb...");
// Call dumpSymbols() to write to the bsdReadFutData.txt file
try{
dumpSymbols();
}catch(Exception e3){
System.out.println("Exception in dumpsymbols RUN is "+e3.getMessage());
}
// Sleep for 5 minutes before calling checkForNewSymbols() again
try{
Thread.sleep(300000);// Sleep for 5 minutes 300000 millisec  00000
}catch(InterruptedException ie){
return;// Return from the run method kills the Thread
}
}
}catch(InterruptedException irune){
System.out.println("InterruptedException at run "+irune.getMessage());
return;
}catch(Exception rune){
System.out.println("Exception at run "+rune.getMessage());
}
finalize();
}// END of run method

Thanks in advance

Mahesh
[ inserted CODE tags - PdH ]
[ April 04, 2002: Message edited by: Peter den Haan ]

[Peter den Haan]

Manesh, I am sorry but after a couple of readings I'm still not sure what your question is exactly. The code you present looks like it should do what I think you're trying to do.
Can you rephrase the question, and/or post a code snippet that contains only what's relevant to the problem?
Thanks
- Peter

[Mahesh Mamani]

Peter,
Thanks for atleast replying...waited for a looong time....so worked around another logic...
Thanks anyway.
Mahesh