How can I make a 5 seconds delay?

What I need to do is make a 5 seconds delay. An example would be that when I run the /spawn command I will be teleported to spawn instantly but I need there to be a 5 seconds delay before it happens.

Example:

Code:

@Override
public boolean onCommand(CommandSender sender, Command cmd, String s, String[] args) {
    sender.teleportToSpawn(); //It happens instantly.
}

 

BukkitRunnables

 

Dont Thing That Helps so Mutch lol...

 

This helped me should answer most of your questions

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQW3xUHkwaU

 

Use this:

Code:

Timer yourtimer = new Timer(true); 
yourtimer.schedule(new TimerTask()
{
    @Override
    public void run()
    {
        sender.teleportToSpawn();
    }
}, 5000);

 

Why not use a BukkitRunnable?

 

There's not any reason not to use a bukkit runnable instead of this, and vice versa.
It does exactly the same thing.
Just figured I'd show another option.

 

Always better to use Bukkits built in scheduler otherwise you will run into seemingly unexplained problems.

Code:

getServer().getScheduler().scheduleSyncDelayedTask(new Runnable() {
 
    @Override
    public void run() {
        //code
    }
 
}, 20*secondsgohere);

 

Why would that be then?
Doesn't Java supply good enough utilities (the one that the BukkitRunnable is built on)?

 

That is Bukkit's official one and it is better because it complies with ticks. Else, you will be running tasks in alternative threads (asynchronously), which can lead to errors

 

Thanks for the good replies. I now have a working timer or whatever you will call it.

 

Ok, thanks for the clarification. I had not thought of the issues it can cause because of asynchronous thread errors.
I will keep that in mind in my future plugin projects.