Is it just me, or is the documentation for java.util.TimerTask
(http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/index.html?overview-summary.html) a
little scant?

How do set the interval?  How do schedule when it runs?  I read examples on
web that show using schedule()?  Where is the spec for the schedule method
in the docs?

In the past I have just used a normal thread, then did a sleep(MY_INTERVAL)
at the bottom of the run() method.  So it looks like TimerTask may be
exactly what I want.

If I specify an interval for my task to run at, say 5 seconds, will it run
the task every 5 seconds, or 5 seconds between runs.
i.e., What happens if my run() takes 8 seconds, but the timerTask is
scheduled at a 5 second interval?

Thanks,

~S