Making a Execution of a tasks take only constant Number of seconds

[Ravi Kiran Va]

Hi ,

I have a Report Generation task , so for this i am starting a Thread .
The Report generation should take only 10000 Ms , or otherwise the Action should be terminated

public void startReportGeneration() {
		Thread thread = new Thread(this);
		thread.setDaemon(true);
		thread.start();
		
		try {
			
			try {
				waitSec = 10000;
				
				
				
			}
			thread.join(waitSec );

	if(thread.isAlive())
			{
				setReportDataBytes(null);
				
			}
			thread=null;
		} catch (InterruptedException iEx) {
			
		}
		
		
	}

I have coded this way , please tell me whether i can use join in this case ??

Thread thread = new Thread(this);
thread.setDaemon(true);
thread.start();


thread.join(waitSec );

[Stephan van Hulst]

Don't use a Thread. Instead, pass your task to an ExecutorService and supply a timeout.