Sleep Function in Java

Published on May 5th, 2006 in Java

Ok, this post is for newbies. Some of you might have been looking for a similar function to Sleep() that you have come to know from Visual Basic. Well, it takes a bit more in Java, take a look at the following code. Simply insert it into your main function to try it out:

Long stoptime = 2000L; //2 Seconds
System.out.println("Going to sleep...");
try {
Thread.sleep(stoptime);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Woke up again!");

1 comment

heads up December 2nd, 2007

heads up to anyone who copy pastes this and is still confused… it doesnt need to be in the main part of your program, and more importantly, change the capital L in Long to a lower case L –>”l”

Shout it out!