I have a main thread that creates an object with a Runnable interface, creates a thread out of it and then starts it. The main thread then waits for 180 seconds on the object. If after the timeout period, the object has not done its work, I want to stop the old object, create a new one and try again.


Unfortunately the wait(180000) never times out!!!

Thanks for any help.


Glenn


Consumer:

			

			RptGetter rmGet = new RptGetter(mSid, mRptMgr, mRptId, mKv, kTagList, mDebugLevel);
			

			Thread rgt = new Thread(rmGet);
			

			rgt.start();
			

			

			synchronized(rmGet) {
			

			rmGet.wait(180000);
			

			

			if (!rmGet.done) {
			

			// NOT DONE - stop the thread
			

			rgt.stop();
			

			} else {
			

			// DONE - get report and continue
			

			mTds = rmGet.getTDS();
			

			gotRpt = true;
			

			} // end else if done
			

			

		

			

			class RptGetter implements Runnable {
			

			public void run() {
			

			synchronized (this) {
			

			tds = rptMgr.getReport
			

			done = true;
			

			this.notifyAll();
			

			} // end synchronized code
			

			} // end run method