Thank you, from the looks of them, that is exactly what I need. I'll start seeing what I can do with Atmosphere.
Cheers, mate... I owe you a beer! On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:25 AM, dhoffer <dhoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
