Re: almost ther ...

From:
Lew <lew@lewscanon.nospam>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:42:11 -0400
Message-ID:
<J7mdnRRystEZYezbnZ2dnUVZ_gmdnZ2d@comcast.com>
Lew wrote:

I am curious - why do you start a Thread that ends almost immediately?

        Thread t = new Thread();

        t.start();


beelzibub @ bawston school for idiots wrote:

1. how else am i suppose to get it to call every 1000 mils?


The idiom you show here doesn't do that. Does it help to use an idiom that
doesn't work because you can't think of one that does?

All this code does is start a Thread that immediately stops.

You might consider java.util.Timer or one of its ilk.

catch (Exception e){}


I am also curious - why have you continued to ignore several people's advice not to ignore the Exception?


2. no one has ever told me what to do with it.


That's not true. I remember other posters telling you to at least log the
Exception.

For example, assuming log4j:

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
public class SomethingOrOther
{
   private Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( getClass() );
   public static void main( String [] args )
   {
    try
    {
      doSomethingThatMightThrowAnException();
    }
    catch( AnException exc )
    {
      String msg = "AnException: "+ exc;
      logger.error( msg ); // /* or use */ System.err.println( msg );
    }
   }
}

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