> I propose all synchronous calls be unsupported in the next release (1.4), > considering we are already changing it to support the latest java platform. > > Are there any other opinions on this? > >
I for one actually do use synchronous calls. Perhaps it is an edge case (and perhaps I'm a nut case :-), but I use them for at least the two following scenarios: 1. I have an app written to test server session clustering. This consists of an AJAX call to the server farm that bumps a variable in session, then a read to see if it updated on all the cluster nodes (an independent read on all nodes). If the AJAX call is asynchronous, it's likely that the modification might not have propagated across all cluster nodes before the "read" call occurs on each node. 2. I have actually used AJAX calls to create a javascript sleep() method (the server takes the passed in parameter and sleeps on that thread for that amount of time). Wise? Perhaps not, but it does work and only because the AJAX call is synchronous. My $0.02. Brantley _______________________________________________ Jabsorb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.jabsorb.org/mailman/listinfo/jabsorb-dev
