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Asked: 2026-06-17T18:03:10+00:00

How many Threads/Timer’s can a BlackBerry application have live at any given time? I’m

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How many Threads/Timer’s can a BlackBerry application have live at any given time?

I’m assuming here that Timer objects are not handled special by the OS – they simply use Thread.sleep or some such to get them selves “scheduled”.

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    16 threads per application, and there’s also a global limit of 128 threads in the device. If you exceed any of these limits, a TooManyThreadsError will be thrown.

    About the Timers, each one has a background thread. From the Timer class javadoc:

    Corresponding to each Timer object is a single background thread that is used to execute all of the timer’s tasks, sequentially.

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