RFR: 8058550: Clarify that TimerTasks are not reusable

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Fri Sep 19 09:14:23 UTC 2014


Thank you Martin and Alan. This does indeed look better.

Since this is a small specification clarification, of existing behavior, 
then a CCC should be filed so it is included in the next Java SE 
maintenance review, gets JCK attention, etc. I will do this.

-Chris.

On 19/09/14 00:22, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> Alan's suggestion of using the singular is a small improvement.  I'm
> committing
>
>   * <p>A timer task is <em>not</em> reusable.  Once a task has been scheduled
>   * for execution on a {@code Timer} or cancelled, subsequent attempts to
>   * schedule it for execution will throw {@code IllegalStateException}.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 18/09/2014 18:52, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> I'd like you to do a code review.
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk9/
>>> TimerTask-clarification/
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8058550
>>>
>> This looks okay. If I were wording this then I think I might word in the
>> singular, as in "Once a timer task has been scheduled ...  then subsequent
>> attempts to schedule it ...".
>>
>> -Alan.
>>



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