Making a program run for 5 minutes

Question

So I wanted to try out something for a bit with the Timer and TimerTask classes.

I was able to get a line of code to execute after 30 seconds elapsed. What I\'ve been t

Answer 1

here's a workaround I'm ashamed of presenting:

package test;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;

public class FiveMinutes {

    private static int count = 0;
    // main method just to add example
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Timer timer = new Timer();
        timer.schedule(new TimerTask() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                System.out.println("Count is: " + count);
                if (count == 1) {
                    System.err.println("... quitting");
                    System.exit(0);
                }
                count++;
            }
        },
        // starting now
        new Date(),
        // 5 minutes
        300000l
        );  
    }
}

Also please note that the application might not run exactly 5 minutes - see documentation for TimerTask.