Timer or sleep to wait for result

Question

I am using a Lotus Notes Mail Class to return the User's Name.
The result takes a couple of secs to be returned and I added an Infinite loop (yeah baaad) checking that a result has been returned. Without the loop null is returned. (if LNotes is not installed the loop works ... ;-) )
I'd rather start a separate Thread that executes for 10 - 20 secs (while the form/application is finishing initialisation & waits for user input) and then update a TField on the form once it's got the username or quits if it exceeds the 10-20 secs.
I've read http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/timer/ but I am not sure how to implement the different solutions.
public class Mail extends NotesThread {
try {
    Session s = NotesFactory.createSession();
    toName = (String)s.getCommonUserName();
    Name no = s.getUserNameObject();
public OpenAForm() {
    initComponents();
    NSMail m = new NSMail();
    m.start();
    while (m.toName == null) {
    jTFreqName.setText(m.toName);
}Edited by: SKtron on Nov 8, 2007 4:29 PM
Edited by: SKtron on Nov 8, 2007 4:30 PM
Edited by: SKtron on Nov 8, 2007 4:31 PM
Edited by: SKtron on Nov 8, 2007 4:31 PM

Answer 1

public OpenAForm() {
initComponents();
NSMail m = new NSMail();
m.start();I see you calling start on your NSMail object... Is it a Thread? Basically, you want to run this synchronously, so you either want to call m.join() after starting it, or m.run() to just run it in the same thread