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i basically want beanschedulerDaily and beanschedulerAudit to run at the same time,
however there are problems with calling them can anyone suggest as to why this wont work,
on compile the following lines give errors:
Thread t1 = new Thread(new beanschedulerAudit());
Thread t2 = new Thread(new beanschedulerDaily());
any suggestions guys
* beanscheduler.java
* Created on 28 May 2004, 16:19
//package beanschedule;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
//import javaParse.*;
* @author andrew.thompson
public class beanscheduler extends Thread {
Timer timer;
public beanscheduler(){       
/** Creates a new instance of beanscheduler */
class RemindTask5 extends TimerTask {
public void run() {
boolean auditerror = false;
File audit = new File("audit");
          if (audit.exists()) {
System.out.println("Error audit file present successful transfer from RDS has completed");
if(auditerror == true){
System.out.println("Error has been resolved");
auditerror = false;
          else {
               System.out.println("Error audit file not present");
auditerror = true;
System.out.println("Run 5 Application " + new Date());
// timer.cancel(); //Terminate the timer thread
class RemindTask24 extends TimerTask {
public void run() {           
boolean error = false;
javaParse jp = new javaParse();
File f1= new File("H:\\upDate\\RDS_PC.DAT");
          File f2= new File("H:\\upDate\\STDCLI.DAT");
          File f3= new File("H:\\upDate\\PERMIS.DAT");
          if (f1.exists() && f2.exists() && f3.exists()){               
               System.out.println("All files are present a sucessful transfer from the RDS has completed");
timer = new Timer();
if (error == true) {
System.out.println("Error has been resolved");
error = false;
jp.javaParseRDSPC();
jp.javaParseSTDCLI();
jp.javaParsePERMIS();
updateDb ud = new updateDb();
ud.start();
          else {
if (f1.exists() && f2.exists()){
System.out.println("Error missing file3, an incomplete transfer from the RDS has occured");
else if (f1.exists() && f3.exists()){
System.out.println("Error missing file2, an incomplete transfer from the RDS has occured");
else if (f2.exists() && f3.exists()){
System.out.println("Error missing file1, an incomplete transfer from the RDS has occured");
else {
System.out.println("Error no files found, an incomplete transfer from the RDS has occured");
error = true;
public void beanschedulerAudit() {
int minutes = 5;
// notifys user that a thread has started
System.out.println("Thread has started");
// sets the the timer to a new instance of the timer class
timer = new Timer();
// if the 5 minute interval jumps to the remindtask5 method else jumps to the
// remindtask24 method.
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new RemindTask5(), minutes*60000, minutes*60000);
public void beanschedulerDaily() {
int minutes = 1440;
// notifys user that a thread has started
System.out.println("Thread has started");
// sets the the timer to a new instance of the timer class
timer = new Timer();
// if the 5 minute interval jumps to the remindtask5 method else jumps to the
// remindtask24 method.
timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new RemindTask24(), minutes*60000, minutes*60000);
* @param args the command line arguments
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Program Starts at " + new Date());
// for 5 minutes updates
Thread t1 = new Thread(new beanschedulerAudit());
// for 24 hour updates 1440 mins = 24 hours
Thread t2 = new Thread(new beanschedulerDaily());
t1.start();
t2.start();

Answer 1

You can't instatiate a method. You need to pass an instance of Runnable to the constructor of Thread, and by the looks of your class already extends Thread so you can say new beanscheduler().start()