[phil_doyle]

is there a way for me to code my program so that it is able to terminate the program on its own and then restart itself after a given amount of time (5 minutes)?

[andychambers]

To close your application after some amount of time, use the sleep() method in your close routine.

To cause it to restart at a specified time, you can use ApplicationManager.scheduleApplication().

[phil_doyle]

thanks for the help

here is the code i'm using

try
{
ApplicationManager appManager = ApplicationManager.getApplicationManager();

ApplicationDescriptor template = ApplicationDescriptor.currentApplicationDescriptor ();
String[] args = { "restart" };
ApplicationDescriptor descriptor = new ApplicationDescriptor(template, args);

// have application restart after 10 sec
Date _date = new Date();
long restartTime = _date.getTime() + (1000 * 10);
_date = null;

appManager.scheduleApplication(descriptor, restartTime, true);
}catch (Exception e) { }
System.exit(0);

however, now i have the problem where i can have two instances of the program running. if my application restarts through the scheduleApplication, i am able to launch another instance of the application.

[phil_doyle]

i guess i solved that problem by adding a code in the main that will check if the application is running already

public static void main(String[] args)
{
ApplicationDescriptor descriptor = ApplicationDescriptor.currentApplicationDescriptor ();
String currentApplicationName = descriptor.getName();

ApplicationManager manager = ApplicationManager.getApplicationManager();
ApplicationDescriptor descriptors[] = manager.getVisibleApplications();

for (int i = 0; i < descriptors.length; i++)
{
if (currentApplicationName.equals(descriptors[i].getName()))
{
manager.requestForeground(manager.getProcessId(des criptors[i]));
return;
}
}
....
}