You need to work with semaphores. How about creating a table to control this traffic? Your background app will query and update it. Your online app will show statuses.
Let's think lean. ;-) -- Vinicius Assef. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:22 PM, mika <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, My application needs to download ON DEMAND some data from external > xml. I would like user to can start the process, and just see that the job > was started, and then to use application normally. The downloading and > parsing xml happens in the background, after this user is notified (flash > popup?). How to achieve this? I checked about cron, I checked about services > and background process but I am not sure is it proper way to do that. BR, > Mika >
