Re: How can GWT handle real time data?

2009-09-27 Thread Evan Ruff
I'll second Wil here. Comet is the way to go. I like running a separate meteor server on an alternate sub-domain to get around the whole blocking issue as well. E On Sep 25, 3:08 pm, wil.pannell wil.pann...@pepsiamericas.com wrote: One or the other -- GWT in Practice, or GWT in Action has a

How can GWT handle real time data?

2009-09-25 Thread looklook
I want to know how GWT handles real time data? For example, a text field of a web page needs to display real time data got from the server, this means once the server receives real time data, it will send to the web page and the text field of the web page gets updated. Can GWT handle this and

Re: How can GWT handle real time data?

2009-09-25 Thread Sean
You would poll from a GWT page via some call, RPC or an HTTP request (I personally use RPC's) to get the information from the server. There is no sever push available though. You do have to ask for information before you get it in a web page. On Sep 25, 11:32 am, looklook zhaoyu...@gmail.com

Re: How can GWT handle real time data?

2009-09-25 Thread John Ivens
What would rock the world is to be able to do something like declare a variable on the server side volatile, and link it to the client side via some machinery built into a library. Then, you don't have to write all of the RPC stuff yourself. Something like a publish-subscribe mechanism, with a

Re: How can GWT handle real time data?

2009-09-25 Thread wil.pannell
One or the other -- GWT in Practice, or GWT in Action has a chapter on emulating server push using the Comet API. On Sep 25, 10:32 am, looklook zhaoyu...@gmail.com wrote: I want to know how GWT handles real time data? For example, a text field of a web page needs to display real time data got