Why ClockDaemon instead of java.util.Timer?

[Jason Dillon]

Does not look like ClockDaemon is going to ever make it into java.util.concurrent (or the backport).  I've also found several sources online that suggest that "Doug Lea says that it replaces its ClockDaemon class.", though I have not actually found anywhere that Doug actually says that. It also looks like ClockDaemon was added way back before there was java.util.Timer in the JDK... and I'm guessing that since they did not bring it into java.util.concurrent that it is probably recommended to just use java.util.Timer. --jason