Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright 2015 StreamSets Inc. * * Licensed under the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ public class Main { /** * <p> * Puts the current thread to sleep for the specified number of milliseconds. * </p> * <p> * If the thread was interrupted before the sleep method is called, the sleep method wont sleep. * </p> * @param milliseconds number of milliseconds to sleep. * * @return <code>true</code> if the thread slept uninterrupted for the specified milliseconds, <code>false</code> if * it was interrupted. */ public static boolean sleep(long milliseconds) { //checking if we got pre-interrupted. boolean interrupted = Thread.interrupted(); if (!interrupted) { try { Thread.sleep(milliseconds); } catch (InterruptedException ex) { interrupted = true; // clearing the interrupt flag Thread.interrupted(); } } return !interrupted; } }