Proper way of implementing "timers" in Java?

Question

I need to do some periodic checks in Java code. Some things get executed in separate threads, and there I need to check things every 5 seconds, then some other things every 10 minutes, etc.

How should I implement these "timers" in Java? Should I just loop and then send threads to sleep for some time?

What would be the proper way of doing it?

Answer 1

You should use the ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor class, which does exactly that.