Usage of java.util.Timer about futiles

[johanandren]

The way the timer is used here is pretty much what ScheduledExecutorService does. The only logic triggered on it is creating/starting of a Future on the provided execution context, so it does not block the Timer thread, same goes for exceptions in the scheduled code-block, they end up failing the created future, not failing the Timer thread, so the problems described does not really apply as far as I can see. The statement about clock drift could be relevant but I couldn't find more details about Timer behaviour around that with a quick search though.

[agourlay]

Thank you for taking the time to look into it.
You can close this issue if there is nothing else to do here 😃