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Sleep method in java

The sleep() method of Thread class is used to sleep a thread for the specified amount of time.

Fig: Sleep Method In Java 

Syntax of sleep() method in java

The Thread class provides two methods for sleeping a thread:

• public static void sleep(long miliseconds)throws InterruptedException
• public static void sleep(long miliseconds, int nanos)throws InterruptedException

Example of sleep method in java

    class TestSleepMethod1 extends Thread{  

     public void run(){  

     for(int i=1;i<5;i++){ 

 try{Thread.sleep(500);}catch(InterruptedException e){System.out.printl        n(e);}  

    System.out.println(i);  

   }  

  }  

   public static void main(String args[]){  

   TestSleepMethod1 t1=new TestSleepMethod1();  

   TestSleepMethod1 t2=new TestSleepMethod1();  

      

  t1.start();  

  t2.start();  

    }  

  }  

   

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