How do I cap my framerate at 60 fps in Java?

Question

I am writting a simple game, and I want to cap my framerate at 60 fps without making the loop eat my cpu. How would I do this?

Answer 1

I took the Game Loop Article that @cherouvim posted, and I took the "Best" strategy and attempted to rewrite it for a java Runnable, seems to be working for me

double interpolation = 0;
final int TICKS_PER_SECOND = 25;
final int SKIP_TICKS = 1000 / TICKS_PER_SECOND;
final int MAX_FRAMESKIP = 5;

@Override
public void run() {
    double next_game_tick = System.currentTimeMillis();
    int loops;

    while (true) {
        loops = 0;
        while (System.currentTimeMillis() > next_game_tick
                && loops < MAX_FRAMESKIP) {

            update_game();

            next_game_tick += SKIP_TICKS;
            loops++;
        }

        interpolation = (System.currentTimeMillis() + SKIP_TICKS - next_game_tick
                / (double) SKIP_TICKS);
        display_game(interpolation);
    }
}