--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/util/Timer.java	Wed Aug 06 10:49:31 2008 -0700
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/util/Timer.java	Thu Aug 07 06:36:41 2008 -0700
@@ -93,12 +93,12 @@
      * and the timer thread consumes, executing timer tasks as appropriate,
      * and removing them from the queue when they're obsolete.
      */
-    private TaskQueue queue = new TaskQueue();
+    private final TaskQueue queue = new TaskQueue();
 
     /**
      * The timer thread.
      */
-    private TimerThread thread = new TimerThread(queue);
+    private final TimerThread thread = new TimerThread(queue);
 
     /**
      * This object causes the timer's task execution thread to exit
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
      * Timer as such a finalizer would be susceptible to a subclass's
      * finalizer forgetting to call it.
      */
-    private Object threadReaper = new Object() {
+    private final Object threadReaper = new Object() {
         protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
             synchronized(queue) {
                 thread.newTasksMayBeScheduled = false;
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
     /**
      * This ID is used to generate thread names.
      */
-    private static AtomicInteger nextSerialNumber = new AtomicInteger(0);
+    private final static AtomicInteger nextSerialNumber = new AtomicInteger(0);
     private static int serialNumber() {
         return nextSerialNumber.getAndIncrement();
     }
@@ -387,6 +387,11 @@
         if (time < 0)
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal execution time.");
 
+        // Constrain value of period sufficiently to prevent numeric
+        // overflow while still being effectively infinitely large.
+        if (Math.abs(period) > (Long.MAX_VALUE >> 1))
+            period >>= 1;
+
         synchronized(queue) {
             if (!thread.newTasksMayBeScheduled)
                 throw new IllegalStateException("Timer already cancelled.");

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/jdk/test/java/util/Timer/DelayOverflow.java	Thu Aug 07 06:36:41 2008 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
+ * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
+ * have any questions.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 6730507
+ * @summary java.util.Timer schedule delay Long.MAX_VALUE causes task to execute multiple times
+ * @author Chris Hegarty
+ * @author Martin Buchholz
+ */
+
+import java.util.Date;
+import java.util.Timer;
+import java.util.TimerTask;
+import java.util.concurrent.*;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
+
+public class DelayOverflow
+{
+    void scheduleNow(Timer timer, TimerTask task, int how) {
+        switch (how) {
+            case 0 :
+                timer.schedule(task, new Date(), Long.MAX_VALUE);
+                break;
+            case 1:
+                timer.schedule(task, 0L, Long.MAX_VALUE);
+                break;
+            case 2:
+                timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, new Date(), Long.MAX_VALUE);
+                break;
+            case 3:
+                timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, 0L, Long.MAX_VALUE);
+                break;
+            default:
+                fail(String.valueOf(how));
+        }
+    }
+
+    void sleep(long millis) {
+        try { Thread.sleep(millis); }
+        catch (Throwable t) { unexpected(t); }
+    }
+
+    /** Checks that scheduledExecutionTime returns a "recent" time. */
+    void checkScheduledExecutionTime(TimerTask task) {
+        long t = System.currentTimeMillis()
+            - task.scheduledExecutionTime();
+        check(t >= 0 && t < 1000 * 600);
+    }
+
+    void test(String[] args) throws Throwable {
+        for (int how=0; how<4; how++) {
+            final CountDownLatch done = new CountDownLatch(1);
+            final AtomicInteger count = new AtomicInteger(0);
+            final Timer timer = new Timer();
+            final TimerTask task = new TimerTask() {
+                @Override
+                public void run() {
+                    checkScheduledExecutionTime(this);
+                    count.incrementAndGet();
+                    done.countDown();
+                }};
+
+            scheduleNow(timer, task, how);
+            done.await();
+            equal(count.get(), 1);
+            checkScheduledExecutionTime(task);
+            if (new java.util.Random().nextBoolean())
+                sleep(10);
+            check(task.cancel());
+            timer.cancel();
+            checkScheduledExecutionTime(task);
+        }
+    }
+
+    //--------------------- Infrastructure ---------------------------
+    volatile int passed = 0, failed = 0;
+    void pass() {passed++;}
+    void fail() {failed++; Thread.dumpStack();}
+    void fail(String msg) {System.err.println(msg); fail();}
+    void unexpected(Throwable t) {failed++; t.printStackTrace();}
+    void check(boolean cond) {if (cond) pass(); else fail();}
+    void equal(Object x, Object y) {
+        if (x == null ? y == null : x.equals(y)) pass();
+        else fail(x + " not equal to " + y);}
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Throwable {
+        Class<?> k = new Object(){}.getClass().getEnclosingClass();
+        try {k.getMethod("instanceMain",String[].class)
+                .invoke( k.newInstance(), (Object) args);}
+        catch (Throwable e) {throw e.getCause();}}
+    public void instanceMain(String[] args) throws Throwable {
+        try {test(args);} catch (Throwable t) {unexpected(t);}
+        System.out.printf("%nPassed = %d, failed = %d%n%n", passed, failed);
+        if (failed > 0) throw new AssertionError("Some tests failed");}
+}