cgl.hpsearch.common
Class Timer

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      cgl.hpsearch.common.Timer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Runnable

public class Timer

extends Thread

Implements a Timer that triggers an event on timeout.
Created on May 26, 2004

Author:

Harshawardhan Gadgil (hgadgil@grids.ucs.indiana.edu)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

Timer()

Timer(int to, TimerExpiryListener client, Object o)
Creates a new Timer object

Method Summary

void	reset() Resets and restarts the timer
void	run()
void	setTimeout(int to) Resets the timout to a new value
void	stopTimer() Stops the timer.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getContextClassLoader, getName, getPriority, getThreadGroup, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setName, setPriority, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Timer

public Timer()

Timer

public Timer(int to,
             TimerExpiryListener client,
             Object o)

Creates a new Timer object

Parameters:

to - - default timeout in seconds

Method Detail

setTimeout

public void setTimeout(int to)

Resets the timout to a new value

Parameters:

to - - the new timeout in seconds

reset

public void reset()

Resets and restarts the timer

stopTimer

public void stopTimer()

Stops the timer. This also ends the Thread associated w/ the timer object

run

public void run()