2012/1/8 beep02 <peter.kov...@gmail.com>: > How can I release the request thread and in the same time keep user in wait > without response? > Is there some way to achieve that?
Yes, either use Servlet 3.0 container such as Tomcat 7 (just google for AsyncContext [1] and ServletRequest.startAsync [2]). Or (for older versions of servlet containers that don't support Servlet 3.0) you have to rely on something like Comet - this is the case with Tomcat 6, for example. [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/AsyncContext.html [2] http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/ServletRequest.html#startAsync()
