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After getting notified my linking of a help thread to all the threads suffering a common issue and the help thread being deleted I will try one more time to assist people who have broken phones,  Mine was stuck in a boot loop or would only work if connected to the wall, I suspected the battery and have replaced it and now the phone works 100% again, However when I replaced the battery and booted the phone it got hot with Android 5.02 installed, also simply while charging as well, This prompted me to roll back to 4.4.4 and all the heat issue has gone and the phone is working 100% again, This leads me to conclude 5.0.2 is flawed and is directly destroying batteries simply during the charge cycle until the battery even though reporting good and appearing charged 100% is in fact dead and holding about 5% charge which is not enough to boot properly, I actuall suspect the little connector on the battery is the victim of 5.0.2 but that's another day once I can test my theory,  So for now I would NOT update my phone to Lollypop until 5.1.1 is available for the device, if you want proof Google any Android phone running Lollypop and look at the similarities to the ones us Sony users have had, Some small remedies to help you repair yours if it's too late and it simply won't boot,  If you have the rear off of it, unclip the battery connector for a 30 seconds, hold power button and release, then reconnect the connector, Now hold Vol+ and Power until you get 3 vibes, Now plug it into the wall charger and leave it for a few hours, You can now attempt to boot it, if it boots and stays live long enough you may be able to flash back to 4.4.4 through Flashtool, not the Sony one, you need the one with the lightning bolt option, If you can complete the flash you may find it needs the back placed back on to read the NFC chip to fully install, All this is best done with a known good battery, one that can complete the flash or at least 25% charged 50% is better,  Final advise, DO NOT UPGRADE TO LOLLYPOP YET! I have the 5.1.1 on my Nexus 7 and it's great, but until it's an option on your phone avoid the updates, 4.4.4 removes all heat issues and it's heat that shuts it down in the end as it happened to me twice. I trust this is suitable this time.

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Besides some major issues with your design (who's going to call Ticker's stop() to stop the thread? Why doesn't your servlet have a useful doGet()/doPost()? Why not use your servlet as a web-based admin tool for your auto-emailer?), the probable reason for your thread not running is that you don't start it anywhere!
An instance of your Runnable implementation (Ticker, in your case) needs to be passed to the Thread constructor (ExternalMailJavaBean in your case). Then the thread instance's start() method needs to be called.
In your code, I see that Ticker is just used for timing. Why not do that in the ExternalMailJavaBean class's run() method instead? You need to work through the Thread tutorial again.