You can also use AJAX with polling. This would be implemented differently per AJAX provider. Ajax4Jsf does this with partial-page refreshing and JBoss-Seam has it with a JSON implementation
On 12/4/06, Adrian Mitev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Look at the mailing lists archive from november. There was discussion about progress bar component. 2006/12/4, John Allerdyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > Hi, > > Can someone please advice me how handle a Action in Form which takes a long time to complete? > > In myfaces a user submits and a function in the backing bean is invoked. And the user will see the result page after that function is returned. > > My question is what if that function takes a long time to complete (e.g. 10 minutes). How can i indicate to user that everything is fine (e.g. display a 'processing page with % of completion' ), and forward him to a result page when things are done? > > Thank you.
