Sometimes, you may be interested in pausing the execution of a thread during a determined period of time. For example, a thread in a program checks the sensor state once per minute. The rest of the time, it does nothing. During this time, the thread doesn't use any resources of the computer. After this period is over, the thread will be ready to continue with its execution when the operating system scheduler chooses it to be executed. You can use the sleep() method of the Thread class for this purpose. This method receives a long number as a parameter that indicates the number of milliseconds during which the thread will suspend its execution. After that time, the thread continues with its execution in the next ...
Sleeping and resuming a thread
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