He obviously wants to send a warning message 5 or 10 minutes before the server shuts down. The server is still up and running during that time. The working ap users would see the warning the next time they communicated with the server, finish up their work, and leave. He is hoping that the server has some kind of built in communication feature to do this, but it sounds as if it does not, so he would have to add this feature to his applications, which would be a pain.
--------------------------------------------------- Hello? HTTP is request-response, remember? He can't preemptively respond before receiving a request. -----Original Message----- From: Cédric Viaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to broadcast a message This is to notice users BEFORE the server shutdown. That was the question i understood. But maybe i am wrong. Regards, Cédric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Galbreath, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 2:58 PM Subject: Re: How to broadcast a message > Uh, how's he gonna do that while Tomcat is down? ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html