Task Execution - Java Concurrency in Practice - page 141

Listing 6.8. Web Server with Shutdown Support.
6.2.5. Delayed and Periodic Tasks
The Timer facility manages the execution of deferred (“run this task in 100 ms”) and
periodic (“run this task every 10 ms”) tasks. However, Timer has some drawbacks, and
ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor should be thought of as its replacement. [6] You can