Canceling a TimerTask

[Jean-Michel Vilain]

Hi ranch people!
I'm into server side multithreading and I'm finding it puzzlingly amusing.
I create a Timer and use it to schedule a TimerTask via schedule(TimerTask t, int delay), i.e. this TimerTask is meant to trigger once at most.
In the case where the TimerTask gets canceled, is this safe not keeping a reference to the Timer? Because I won't be able to call stop or anything on it when the TimerTask gets canceled.
Thoughts or suggestions welcome!

[Paul Clapham]

The procedure to cancel a TimerTask seems pretty simple to me: you call its cancel() method. You can read the API documentation and confirm that for yourself. So I don't understand the rest of your question.

[Chris Hurst]

It's safe as the timer lives on until actually removed by the scheduler (happens automatically) when cancelled so if your not worried about performance your fine . Cancelled timers can seriously mess with GC performance (consider purge), though only worry about this if your writing serious server apps and use timers a lot.