Java Thread Sleep Example

Sleep method of java.lang.Thread is used to pause current execution of thread for specific period of time.

Some important points about sleep method are :

It causes current executing thread to sleep for specific amount of time.
Its accuracy depends on system timers and schedulers.
It keeps the monitors it has acquired, so if it is called from synchronized context, no other thread can enter that block or method.
If we call interrupt() method , it will wake up the sleeping thread.

synchronized(lockedObject) {

Thread.sleep(1000); // It does not release the lock on lockedObject.

// So either after 1000 miliseconds, current thread will wake up, or after we call

//t. interrupt() method.

Example: Create a class FirstThread.java as below.

package org.arpit.java2blog.thread;

public class FirstThread implements Runnable{

public void run()

{

System.out.println("Thread is running");

}

Create main class named ThreadSleepExampleMain.java

package org.arpit.java2blog.thread;

public class ThreadSleepExampleMain {

public static void main(String args[])

{

FirstThread ft= new FirstThread();

Thread t=new Thread(ft);

t.start();

long startTime=System.currentTimeMillis();

try {

// putting thread on sleep

Thread.sleep(1000);

} catch (InterruptedException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

long endTime=System.currentTimeMillis();

long timeDifference=(endTime-startTime);

System.out.println("Time difference between before and after sleep call: "+timeDifference);

}

When you run above program, you will get following output.

Thread is running

Time difference between before and after sleep call: 1001

You can see there is delay of 1 milliseconds. As mentioned earlier,its accuracy depends on system timers and schedulers.

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