Schedule a Task for Execution in Java

One of the methods in the Timer class is the void schedule(Timertask task, Date time) method. This method schedules the specified task for execution at the specified time. If the time is in the past, it schedules the task for immediate execution.

Declaration −The java.util.Timer.schedule(Timertask task, Date time) is declared as follows −

public void schedule(Timertask task, Date time)

There are few exceptions thrown by the schedule(Timertask task, Date time) method. They are as follows −

Example

 Live Demo

import java.util.*;
class MyTask extends TimerTask {
   public void run() {
      System.out.println("Task is running");
   }
}
public class Example {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      Timer timer = new Timer(); // creating timer
      TimerTask task = new MyTask(); // creating timer task
      timer.schedule(task, new Date()); // scheduling the task
   }
   public void run() {
      System.out.println("Performing the given task");
   }
}

Output

Task is running