Am 16.09.2014 um 00:47 schrieb Martin Buchholz:
Maybe it could be extentend to:
IllegalStateException - if task was already scheduled, cancelled or already
done, timer was
cancelled, or timer thread terminated.
... as I assume a TimerTask instance is never reusable.
It's already "technically correct" - if it was already done, then it was
already scheduled!
Correct!
Note: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8058550
Is there a reason why a TimerTask is not reset for reuse when cancelled or
already done?
It's a reasonable question. Like Futures, it's a lot easier to reason about tasks when they
atomically transition to a done state at most once. But e.g. FutureTask has runAndReset.
Interesting.
-Ulf
