There are several pollyfills for eventsource though. Just like there are for older browsers and websockets.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent_events On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:48 AM Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at 4:43:45 PM UTC+2, JonL wrote: >> >> Others have suggested websockets, but there are several other options as >> well. There is google cloud messaging and many other libraries to solve >> this problem as well as ServerSent Events. >> >> http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/ >> > > Unfortunately, and surprisingly, EventSource isn't supported in Microsoft > browsers, contrary to WebSocket! > http://caniuse.com/eventsource vs. http://caniuse.com/websockets > > If none of those are options, try to avoid using a regular timer. More >> timers, more problems. If you must use a timer like object, I would >> suggest using gwt Scheduler instead. >> > > Most importantly, schedule the task again from the RPC callback, do not > schedule a repeating task (in other words, in JS terms, use setTimeout, do > not use setInterval) > > >> On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 2:38:11 AM UTC-7, Olar Andrei wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> In my GWT application I have a messaging system integrated within. When >>> a specific conversation gets opened, a query runs and selects all messages >>> available for this conversation. From the same view you can reply to that >>> conversation. When replying, the other user has to click a small refresh >>> button (located on top, which agian gets all mesages from the DB running >>> the same query from above) in order for the last message to appear. >>> >>> My question: How can I make that refresh automatically, so you don't >>> have to click on the button in order to refresh the conversation. Like in >>> FB, Messenger, etc, where you don't refresh the conversation and the >>> messages keep coming without you having to do anything. >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "GWT Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-web-toolkit/zsyG1NKf2p8/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Jonathon Lamon Chief Software Engineer Perceptronics Solutions Inc. Tel 703-485-2922 Cell 269-205-4649 www.percsolutions.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
