Java: Wait for TimerTask to complete before continuing execution

Question

I\'m having a bit of an annoying problem. Right now, I have a snippet of code that starts a thread, sets a timer within that thread, and then exits that thread and continues wit

Answer 1

Use a Semaphore. Initialize it before declaring the timer task, with 0 permits. In the timer task, use a try/finally block to release the semaphore. In the main thread, acquire the permit from the semaphore.

In your code, join works as specified since it waits for the thread to finish. And no, using a thread for this is not necessary. If you really want to block until a certain time, you don't need a Timer. Get the current time, compute the millis until the future time, and sleep().