Java TimerTask run() Method

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Description

The Java TimerTask run() method takes care of the action to be performed by this timer task.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.TimerTask.run() method.

public abstract void run()

Parameters

NA

Return Value

NA

Exception

NA

Running the Timer Operation Example

The following example shows the usage of Java Timer run() method to run the timer operation as per schedule. We've created a timer object using a CustomTimerTask object. CustomTimerTask is custom class extending TimerTask class and implements the run() method which will execute at scheduled time. Then we created a timer object and scheduled a task using scheduleAtFixedRate() to execute at every 100 milliseconds starting from now.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

public class TimerTaskDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // creating timer task, timer
      TimerTask tasknew = new CustomTimerTask();
      Timer timer = new Timer();

      // scheduling the task
      timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(tasknew, new Date(), 100);

      try {
         Thread.sleep(500);
      } catch (InterruptedException e) {
         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

class CustomTimerTask extends TimerTask {

   @Override
   public void run() {
      System.out.println("working on");
   }  
}

Output

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result.

working on
working on
working on
working on
working on
working on

Running the Timer Operation as Daemon Process Example

The following example shows the usage of Java Timer run() method to run the timer operation as per schedule. We've created a timer object using a CustomTimerTask object. CustomTimerTask is custom class extending TimerTask class and implements the run() method which will execute at scheduled time. Then we created a timer object as a daemon thread and scheduled a task using scheduleAtFixedRate() to execute at every 100 milliseconds starting from now.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

public class TimerTaskDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // creating timer task, timer
      TimerTask tasknew = new CustomTimerTask();
      Timer timer = new Timer(true);

      // scheduling the task
      timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(tasknew, new Date(), 100);

      try {
         Thread.sleep(500);
      } catch (InterruptedException e) {
         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

class CustomTimerTask extends TimerTask {

   @Override
   public void run() {
      System.out.println("working on");
   }  
}

Output

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result.

working on
working on
working on
working on
working on
working on

Running the Named Timer as Daemon Process Operation Example

The following example shows the usage of Java Timer run() method to run the timer operation as per schedule. We've created a timer object using a CustomTimerTask object. CustomTimerTask is custom class extending TimerTask class and implements the run() method which will execute at scheduled time. Then we created a timer object as a daemon thread, with a given name and scheduled a task using scheduleAtFixedRate() to execute at every 100 milliseconds starting from now.

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

public class TimerTaskDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // creating timer task, timer
      TimerTask tasknew = new CustomTimerTask();
      Timer timer = new Timer("test",true);

      // scheduling the task
      timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(tasknew, new Date(), 100);

      try {
         Thread.sleep(500);
      } catch (InterruptedException e) {
         // TODO Auto-generated catch block
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

class CustomTimerTask extends TimerTask {

   @Override
   public void run() {
      System.out.println("working on");
   }  
}

Output

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result.

working on
working on
working on
working on
working on
working on