The Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a ...

You satisfy the first problem by delegating the monitoring to a dedicated file monitor. You satisfy the second by using two classes from the JDK 1.3 java.util package: Timer and TimerTask.

So I inherited this bit of Java code and it has what I will call a Watchdog Timer.It is set for like 10 minutes and if nothing good happens in 10 minutes it runs some cleanup code.Now when ever ...