Question

I am translating some Javascript code into Java, and need to know how to do Timeouts in Java. How would I translate the following into Java?

var x = setTimeout(function(){ ... }, 2000);
clearTimeout(x);

Answer 1

Create a Launch a new Thread. In case you need a delay in the execution, you can use sleep()

Anyway it is basically different, in JS you do not have a ‘Main thread’ (JS is run by the browser threads) while in Java you have it. So, if what you want to do is to call a function separately at specified times, you create just one thread and in this thread you make a loop with sleep and your logic (and mark the thread as daemon).