Java Garage

Stopping a Timer Thread

As we have seen, timer tasks will run forever if you don't shut down the thread. So there are a few different ways we can stop a timer task that's running.

1.	Unplug the machine.
2.	Call System.exit(0), which shuts down all of the threads in an app.
3.	Create the timer as a daemon thread. Doing so will automatically stop the thread once there are only daemon threads left executing, and not user threads. See the “Creating a TimerTask as a Daemon” section later.
4.	After all of the tasks have finished executing, remove all of the references to the Timer object. This is not a great way to do this if you need specific control over the cessation of this task, because when it is garbage collected, the thread terminates. But you ...