What is the difference between stopping a java Thread and stopping an instance of Timer ?
Why is timer.cancel thread safe or is it ?
What is the difference between stopping a java Thread and stopping an instance of
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What is the difference between stopping a java Thread and stopping an instance of Timer ?
Why is timer.cancel thread safe or is it ?
Cancelling a timer doesn’t have any of the potentially destabilizing behaviour of aborting a thread. From the docs:
In other words, it’s not going to try to stop a task which is already running, which could potentially end up with monitors not being released etc. It’s just going to avoid running any more tasks.