Puts the current thread to sleep for the specified amount of time. - Java java.lang

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Puts the current thread to sleep for the specified amount of time.

Demo Code

/*/*  w  w  w.  j av  a2  s.  c  o  m*/
 * (J)ava (M)iscellaneous (U)tilities (L)ibrary
 *
 * JMUL is a central repository for utilities which are used in my
 * other public and private repositories.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2014  Kristian Kutin
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
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 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
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 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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 * e-mail: kristian.kutin@arcor.de
 */
//package com.java2s;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
        long sleepTime = 2;
        sleep(sleepTime);
    }

    /**
     * Puts the current thread to sleep for the specified amount of time.
     *
     * @param sleepTime
     *        in milliseconds
     */
    public static void sleep(long sleepTime) {

        Thread currentThread = Thread.currentThread();

        try {

            Thread.sleep(sleepTime);

        } catch (InterruptedException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
            currentThread.interrupt();
        }
    }
}

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