Wait and Timeout

Question

Hi All
I have a task, I need to execute this task only if I meet a condition.
I wrote the function
didIMeetCondition()which returns boolean.
I have a threshold value of time to which I can wait till my condition returns true.
After the threshold I need to throw exception if y condition return false.
How do I write code to do this. Just psuedo code is sufficient.
Any ideas, please let me know.
Thanks
Bib

Answer 1

Untested code below - just an example. Extending Runnable, using swing Timer, etc may be better options in the end ... but just an example here.
public class HypotheticalTimer {
  private boolean timeOut;
  public HypotheticalTimer() {
    new TimeKeeper(30).start();
    didIMeetCondition();
  public class TimeKeeper  extends Thread {
    int interval;
    public TimeKeeper(int _interval) {
      interval = _interval;
    public void run() {
      try {
        Thread.sleep(interval*1000);
        timOut = true;
      } catch(InterruptedException ie) {
  public void didIMeetCondition() { // probably synchronized?
    while ( !timeOut) {
      /* whatever conditions need to be considered, etc. */
  }~Bill