[SOLVED] Calling sleep on current thread stalls my main GUI

Calling sleep on current thread stalls my main GUI

I have one class DataThread inherited from Thread. I am using two DataThread objects ReadThread and WriteThread. I have another thread where Main_GUI is running.

Now when I press a button on main_GUI it calls a method x.method1() and then this method uses the WriteThread method WriteThread.sleepForReset(). In

public void sleepForReset(){
    try {
        sleep(28000);
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

When I press the button on main_GUI the GUI stalls for 28000 miliseconds. If I am calling sleep on WriteThread then why it halts the main_GUI? Is it because the sleep is a static method? If yes can anybody suggest how to sleep the WriteThread without affecting Main_GUI?

Solution

Thanks all of you for suggesting me different options..... But I used TimeTask.schedule() and worked. I scheduled my job for later instead of using sleep in the current thread......