Groovy Almanac

Example Timer and TimerTask in Groovy

This is an example of the Timer and TimerTask in Groovy.

import java.util.timer.*

class TimerTaskExample extends TimerTask {
        public void run() {
        	println new Date()
        }
}

int delay = 5000   // delay for 5 sec.
int period = 1000  // repeat every sec.
Timer timer = new Timer()
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTaskExample(), delay, period)