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I am building a Swing application in Java.
I’ve read that in order to run a GUI task periodically it is recommended to use a Timer object (from javax.swing package). I am trying to understand what is the difference between using the Timer object vs using the sleep method for the Thread. Don’t they both achieve the same?
Meir
If you sleep the EDT your entire GUI will hang and become unresponsive until the thread wakes up. This is bad.