Is it possible to stop a Timer from a separate class?

Question

I am trying to reset a Timer so as to avoid having multiple instances of it. To achieve this, I want to stop the Timer from a separate class, something like this:

public void Timer() 
{
    Timer timer = new Timer(); 
    long interval = (1000) ;
    timer.schedule( new TimerTask() 
    {
        public void run() 
        {
            // code //       
        }
    }, 0, interval);         
}

public void Stop() 
{
    // stop Timer //
}

I feel this may be achievable by terminating Timer(); if it is not possible to stop the Timer I would much appreciate being shown how I could best go about terminating the class as cleanly as possible. Thank you.

Answer 1

I devised a pretty rudimentary solution:

boolean stop;
public void Timer() 
{
    Timer timer = new Timer(); 
    long interval = (1000) ;
    timer.schedule( new TimerTask() 
    {
        public void run() 
        {
            if condition is met{
                execute
            }
            else if(stop == true){
                timer.cancel();
            }       
        }
    }, 0, interval);         
}

.
.
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stop = true;
try {
    Thread.sleep(2000);
} catch (InterruptedException ex) {
    Logger.getLogger(Main.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
stop = false;
Timer1();

Basically, the boolean value stops the Timer, gives it 2 seconds to make sure there is no overlap, and is then set back to false to safely reset the Timer.