Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition [Electronic resources]

This interface extends Future and Delayed and adds no methods of its own. A ScheduledFuture represents a computation and the future result of that computation just as Future does, but it adds a getdelay( ) method that returns the amount of time until the computation begins. See ScheduledExecutorService.

public interface

ScheduledFuture<V> extends DelayedFuture<V> { }

Returned By

ScheduledExecutorService.{schedule( ), scheduleAtFixedRate( ), scheduleWithFixedDelay( )}, ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.{schedule( ), scheduleAtFixedRate( ), scheduleWithFixedDelay( )}