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003| Copyright 2005-2011 the ConQAT Project                                   |
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017package org.conqat.lib.commons.concurrent;
018
019/**
020 * Utility methods for dealing with threads.
021 */
022public class ThreadUtils {
023
024        /**
025         * Causes the current thread to sleep the given number of milliseconds. The
026         * sleep phase can also exit earlier if an {@link InterruptedException} is
027         * thrown. Any {@link InterruptedException} is silently discarded.
028         */
029        public static void sleep(long milliseconds) {
030                try {
031                        Thread.sleep(milliseconds);
032                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
033                        // ignore exception
034                }
035        }
036}