Best way to code a simple wait/delay?

What is the best way to code a simple wait/delay so that my application idles for a few seconds before continuing? I'd rather not use a loop to do this and am looking for a better solution. This code will not be threaded, so I'm not going to use sleep(). TIA

From the OS level, yes it is a process; from Java's perspective, it's a Thread, at least in Sun's implementation.
According to the JVM specification, section 2.1.9, "The Java virtual machine initially starts up with a single nondaemon thread, which typically calls the method main of some class. The virtual machine may also create other daemon threads for internal purposes. The Java virtual machine exits when all nondaemon threads have terminated."
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/Concepts.doc.html#33308

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