What kind of behaviour causes an interrupted exception?

Question

I\'m relatively new to Threading in Java and I\'ve noticed that everytime I use Thread.sleep() I have to catch InterrupetdException.

What kind of behaviour causes th

Answer 1

InterruptedException is a checked exception so unfortunately you cannot just ignore it. In most simple cases you do not have to do anything in the catch clause because you are sure that it will not happen.

From the API

Thrown when a thread is waiting, sleeping, or otherwise paused for a long time and another thread interrupts it using the interrupt method in class Thread.