How to make service sleep in webMethods

Problem 

Suspending execution for a specified period is an efficient means of making processor time available to the other threads of an application or other applications that might be running on a computer system.

Solution

Making service sleep in webMethods can be implemented in a Java Service in webMethods. The code snippet is as follows.

IDataCursor idc = pipeline.getCursor();
int inString = IDataUtil.getInt( idc, "milliseconds", 0);

try{
           //do what you want to do before sleeping
           Thread.sleep(inString); //sleep for 1000 ms
           //do what you want to do after sleeptig
}
catch(InterruptedException ie){
           //If this thread was intrrupted by nother thread
}

idc.destroy();