Using swing Timer
/*
This program is a part of the companion code for Core Java 8th ed.
(http://horstmann.com/corejava)
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/**
@version 1.00 2000-04-13
@author Cay Horstmann
*/
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.Date;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.Timer;
// to resolve conflict with java.util.Timer
public class TimerTest
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
ActionListener listener = new TimePrinter();
// construct a timer that calls the listener
// once every 10 seconds
Timer t = new Timer(10000, listener);
t.start();
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Quit program?");
System.exit(0);
}
}
class TimePrinter implements ActionListener
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
{
Date now = new Date();
System.out.println("At the tone, the time is " + now);
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
}
}
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