How to run Multiple Timer Tasks concurrently??

[Rohan Kayan]

I am creating multiple timerTasks and scheduling them with one timer for immediate start . Now I am confused that are they running concurrently or in sequential basic with the repetition interval of 10 seconds , what will happen if one task goes in unending loop . Will other tasks execute or not ???

Please help me out..............

[Stefan Wagner]

Can you try it, and inform us?

[Henry Wong]

The standard java.util.Timer class only creates one thread, hence, long lived tasks will affect other tasks to be executed.

With Java 1.5, there is the ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor class, that allows you specify the number of threads.

Henry

[Stan James]

You could make your tasks spawn new threads, too. That way they'd end almost instantly as far as the Timer thread can tell. If you have lots threads being set up and torn down, the JDK 5 thread pooling stuff might be a good idea.

[Rohan Kayan]

Originally posted by Henry Wong:
The standard java.util.Timer class only creates one thread, hence, long lived tasks will affect other tasks to be executed.

With Java 1.5, there is the ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor class, that allows you specify the number of threads.

Henry

Thanks Henry for your reply , What will happen if I am going to use multiple Timer instance , Shall it start working concurrently or not ??

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by Rohan Kayan:
Thanks Henry for your reply , What will happen if I am going to use multiple Timer instance , Shall it start working concurrently or not ??

Each Timer instance will start another thread -- so yes, you will achieve concurrency. However, if it is a repeating task, then long running tasks may still affect the next iteration of the task.

Henry