What's the right way to handle a long process without occupying a tomcat processor/thread?

Hello all, I have a scenario related to long process in handling a servlet request. I am using tomcat 4.1 with apache 1.3.9. In one

Re: What's the right way to handle a long process without occupying a tomcat processor/thread?

Use a backgorund thread to do the processing. Then spit a page back to the user which uses a meta refresh to check the status of the background thread. Place an animated gif on the meta refresh page and the user will be none the wiser. -Tim Xiao F Chen wrote:

RE: What's the right way to handle a long process without occupying a tomcat processor/thread?

Tim, Do you have a code example of this solution? I would be very interested in setting something like this up. Thanks. Michael -Original Message- From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:22 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: What's the right way

Re: What's the right way to handle a long process without occupying a tomcat processor/thread?

Here's some bad pseudo code ... -- process.jsp -- /* Make ThreadyThing implements Runnable, its constructor will start itself as a background thread and do your processing. Expose a method isDone() to be flag to let you know when its done. */ % session.setAttribute(thread, new