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yapkm01
yapkm01

Reputation: 3775

Java threads : ExecutorService delay between threads

I know the traditional way to delay a thread by using sleep method. My question is supposedly i have the following: 

ExecutorService threadExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(5);

Is there a way say by using ExecutorService class to have a delay between each threads without using sleep method? I mean is there a method in ExecutorService class for this purpose?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 10714

Answers (1)

Peter Lawrey
Peter Lawrey

Reputation: 533442

Do you mean something like

ScheduledExecutorService service = Executors.newScheduledThreadPool(5);

service.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, initialDelay, period, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);

If you want three tasks, 10 seconds apart you can do

service.execute(task1);
service.schedule(task2, 10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
service.schedule(task3, 20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

Upvotes: 14

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