Sounds like a server-push/Comet situation, there are many comet frameworks including CometD & Atmosphere, the later having a GWT client...not sure what GWT has for Comet internally.
-Dave On Jan 6, 7:07 am, randal cobb <rco...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm still new to GWT and I don't know all of it's capabilities. I've > googled for what I think I want to do, but I'm not sure if I've used the > correct terms, so I've come up almost fruitless on any searches; perhaps > someone can point me in the correct direction. > > I have a relatively simple GWT web app that displays information in a page > successfully. I also have a Quartz based job that runs at a scheduled time > to update some data in the background. My question is, how can I tell the > server to to update the page when this quartz job starts and ends so users > of the app know that a data refresh is running? If someone is viewing the > page, I'd like to be able to dynamically display a HTML widget that shows > an "throbber" image when the refresh is running, but dynamically make it go > away when the refresh job completes so the end user gets an almost > real-time indicator without having to reload the page. I believe I need > something along the lines of the event bus, but I'm missing how to > implement the dynamic client side. I know I have to simply be missing > something, so apologies if this may have been addressed several times > before; again, I'm not sure exactly what terms to search for. > > Anyone have any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
