Waking up a sleeping thread - interrupt() versus “splitting” the sleep into multiple sleeps

Question

This requirement came up in my Android app, but it applies to Java in general. My app \"does something\" every few seconds. I have implemented this as follows (just relevant sni

Answer 1

IIRC, in Java you can object.wait() with a timeout. Is this not what you want? If you want to change the timeout from another thread, change some 'waitValue' variable and notify(). The thread will then 'immediately' run and then wait again with the new timeout value. No explicit sleep required.