Simple Groovy Scheduler

How to write a simple scheduler in Groovy? Here you are:

       


      
class GroovyTimerTask extends TimerTask {

    Closure closure

    void run() 


    {

        closure()

    }

}



class TimerMethods 


{

    static TimerTask runEvery(Timer timer, long delay, 

    long period, Closure codeToRun) 

    {

        TimerTask task = new GroovyTimerTask(closure: codeToRun)

        timer.schedule task, delay, period

        task

    }

}



use (TimerMethods) 

{

    def timer = new Timer()

    def task = timer.runEvery(1000, 5000) 

    {

        println "Task executed at ${new Date()}."

    }

    println "Current date is ${new Date()}."

} 
 

Attetion: If you run this code as is, to stop the script you have to kill the GroovyConsole!