Hi Ron,
Sending an email at the end of the task is even easier : you don't need
polling at all !
Simply submit a runnable with your webservice call and response handling
(send the email) to an ExecutorService from the action. This is "fire and
forget" : submission to the executor doesn't block.
Hi Ron,
I'm not sure how this code will be formatted on the mailing list, but give
this code a try. I've used this approach in the past for simple tasks.
Obviously, if you have more complex tasks, you may want to create your own
Runnable worker. But this approach creates an action bean that is
The link that Joaquin describes is not quite what I want either. I want to
allow the user to go ahead and
continue to work, not wait one minute before they can go on. This seems to
describe a scenario where a 'wait page' would be updated periodically, and
I don't want the user to have to wait at
