Java Timer vs ExecutorService?

Question

I have code where I schedule a task using java.util.Timer. I was looking around and saw ExecutorService can do the same. So this question here, hav

Answer 1

My reason for sometimes preferring Timer over Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor() is that I get much cleaner code when I need the timer to execute on daemon threads.

compare

private final ThreadFactory threadFactory = new ThreadFactory() {
    public Thread newThread(Runnable r) {
        Thread t = new Thread(r);
        t.setDaemon(true);
        return t;
    }
};
private final ScheduledExecutorService timer = Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor(threadFactory); 

with

private final Timer timer = new Timer(true);

I do this when I don't need the robustness of an executorservice.