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Often times you want the server to pause execution of a page, or go to sleep for a short while. You may be waiting for a file to be written to the file system etc.

You can do achieve this in the following fashion:

<cfset createObject('java', 'java.lang.Thread').sleep(5000) />

The example above makes the server call “sleep” for 5 seconds.

Ryan Duckworth states:

“A java thread (which ColdFusion code is converted to) is doing a NOP (no operation) procedure during a java Sleep command which causes no inefficiency. The multi-processing nature of the CPU handles this functionality for you and will use those CPU cycles with other requests during the sleep.”

Note that I usually have this in a Utility component with lots of functions I can call when needed. For example:

<cffunction name="sleep" access="public" output="false" returntype="void" hint="Leverages Java's sleep() function"> <cfargument name="timeToSleep" type="numeric" required="true" /> <cfscript> createObject("java", "java.lang.Thread").sleep(arguments.timeToSleep); //sleep time in milliseconds return; </cfscript> </cffunction>

So then I can call application.utility.sleep(1000);

Related Pages

• Making your web applications platform independant
• Utils.cfc
• CFC Bean generators

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