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Asked: 2026-05-29T14:48:52+00:00

I need to write an application that will check for something every X time

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I need to write an application that will check for something every X time and update it to GUI comtols.
I have some little knowledge in java and written some applications before but I’ve never dealt with stuff like multiple threads and updating the GUI.

I though it will be an easy task so I’ve started to write my software. Everything else is pretty much functioning. I just cant get the app to perform checks every X time and then update the GUI.

Can someone please give some guidance on this? What shold I look into? what is the common practice?
Is it threads? recursive? anything else?

Also if possible provide me some code examples, I can understand better.

thanks for any effort!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m assuming you’re using Swing. If so, use a Swing Timer.

    Or, if the check itself is some long-running task that must not be done in the GUI thread (because it would freeze it), then use a SwingWorker and submit it to a ScheduledExecutorService created by the Executors class.

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