Task Manager

Published 02/20/2023 Updated 09/12/2023

Task Manager is an easy to use zero dependency task manager / task queue.

What Does It Do?

Small Java Library that provides task execution / queueing,
- Used to delay code / run a function in the ‘background’ without delaying the main thread.
FIFO, by design it queues tasks onto a single thread.

Requirements

Java 8 or greater

How To Integrate as a Dependency

Add the following to your pom.xml as a maven dependency, or just download the latest release and import it with your IDE.

<dependency>
	<groupId>com.konloch</groupId>
	<artifactId>TaskManager</artifactId>
	<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>

How To Use

For a more in-depth example of how to use the TaskManager, view this test file.

//create and start a new task manager
TaskManager manager = new TaskManager();
manager.start();

//run the code after a delay of 1 second
manager.delay(1000, (task)->{
	System.out.println("This will execute after a delay of 1 second");
});

//create a task that will run forever
manager.doForever((task)->
{
	//stop the task depending on some condition
	if(someCondition)
		task.stop();
	else
		System.out.println("This will execute until stopped");
});