On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Chris Pratt wrote: | Or you can fake it like most of the web sites do and pop up a window with an | animated gif file in the onsubmit event handler of the <form> and close the | window in the onunload event handler of the <body> tag. That way it pop's | up and stays there until the response is ready to be processed by the | browser, then goes away by itself. It's a totally client side solution that | takes no cycles on the server side. | (*Chris*)
I'm not sure if this have been mentioned, but another common way to do this, is to supply the user with enough info so that -most- browsers can render it (a finished table or similar), committ (flush) this to the stream (thus have it rendered at the user's side), then feed the user a-byte-per-second (spaces) (with committs), while you have another thread doing your dirty-work. Then, when the worker-thread pings you (the servlet-thread), you send the final javascript-bit that refreshes the page to either a specially designed url that includes some key/cookie, or just use sessions, and you show the result. Endre ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
