The Java language libraries include a "swing timer," which lets you add a countdown timer on your Java forms. You set up the timer's properties such as the amount of time that passes before a function ...

A countdown timer is pretty cool and fun stuff to build as well as quite challenging to implement. We first have to get the timer running, and then, have to properly format the time, which is usually ...

So I inherited this bit of Java code and it has what I will call a Watchdog Timer.<BR>It is set for like 10 minutes and if nothing good happens in 10 minutes it runs some cleanup code.<BR><BR>Now when ...