Stopping Java Application - Urgent please

I am writing a Java application which will run in the background continuosly with some time interval .

My code goes like this

public class Task1 extends TimerTask {

run(){

// Code to be repeated will be placed here

}

If I want to stop the program , what is the way ? (Except Ctrl+C). I want to have a program like "tomcat start" and "tomcat stop" .How to write such program . Please give hints .

Thanks in advance...

Regards,

Ravi

[519 byte] By [ravish.k] at [2007-9-26 3:01:42]