Scheduling tasks using Threads

[Java Tip]

Sometimes it is very important to schedule tasks. Threading can be used in such cases. In following example, we schedules 3 tasks and the tasks were executed according to the given time interval.

Code:

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

public class Reminder {
  Timer timer;

  public Reminder(int seconds, String task) {
    timer = new Timer();
    timer.schedule(new RemindTask(task), seconds * 1000);
  }

  class RemindTask extends TimerTask {
    String task;
    RemindTask(String task){
    	this.task = task;
    }
	  public void run() {
      System.out.println("Task: " + task + " executed");
      timer.cancel();
    }
  }

  public static void main(String args[]) {
    System.out.println("About to schedule task.");
    new Reminder(2, "Task1");
    new Reminder(5, "Task2");
    new Reminder(3, "Task3");
    System.out.println("Tasks scheduled.");
  }
}