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Calling sleep() to wait for a while
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// : c13:SleepingThread.java
// Calling sleep() to wait for awhile.
// From 'Thinking in Java, 3rd ed.' (c) Bruce Eckel 2002
// www.BruceEckel.com. See copyright notice in CopyRight.txt.
public class SleepingThread extends Thread {
private int countDown = 5;
private static int threadCount = 0;
public SleepingThread() {
super("" + ++threadCount);
start();
}
public String toString() {
return "#" + getName() + ": " + countDown;
}
public void run() {
while (true) {
System.out.println(this);
if (--countDown == 0)
return;
try {
sleep(100);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
new SleepingThread().join();
}
} ///:~
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