The Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a function ...

This month’s Java 101 concludes the thread series by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Java requires every thread and every thread group ...

Property files are widely used to control application configurations. One great advantage of property files: they let you change your application’s configuration without recompilation. However, you ...

So I inherited this bit of Java code and it has what I will call a Watchdog Timer.<BR>It is set for like 10 minutes and if nothing good happens in 10 minutes it runs some cleanup code.<BR><BR>Now when ...