Java Timer in Thread

I have a multithreaded listener program whose purpose is to receive ASN.1 messages. If a new socket connection is received I spwan a new thread. Now part of the incoming message is a timeout value. This is where the problem comes in. With this timeout value I need to start a specified "Job". If this "Job" does not complete in the set time, an exception must be thrown so that I can take alternative action.
I fiddled with the Timer class but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
TIA

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[ May 22, 2002: Message edited by: Robert Ziel ]

I too have been fiddling with the same problem ,if u could find any reply that will be helpful for me.And do u know how to make a thread sleep for some seconds for eg.30.I tried using
Thread.sleep(1800);
but it waits only for 2 seconds what is the actual problem?Waiting for some reply.
Happy middling with java.

Netharam.

Hi,
sleep(1800) is 1.8 second
sleep(30000) 30 seconds
or could be a bit more see the api
Robert