Just a thought, but couldn't you start your process and place a token in the session indicating the process is active but not complete. Map a filter to /* and have it check to see if the token indicates the process is complete. If it is, then the filter would redirect the user to the "Process Complete" page/action. You could even go as far as to provide a link on each page for checking the status of the process. The link would just loop back to the existing page forcing the filter to check the process status. The link would only appear if the process token was in the session.
I haven't tried this, but it seems like it would work. robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Quentin.Cope [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:39 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Automatic refresh - IS THIS POSSIBLE? > > > Cool > > Much more complete answer than mine but still not a great idea, > and has the same downsides as the meta tag stuff, unless I am > missing the point. The "processing servlet", the process that > takes a long time, is only fired off once the user has downloaded > the "please wait" page and executed the java script. Perhaps I am > worrying over nothing but what would be real nice is to be able > to fire off the long job first, then display the message, then > somehow connect up to the long job. Perhaps you could do > something with threads to fire off the long job..... or maybe I > am making this just a little too complex! > > Quentin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Fortier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 30 January 2003 14:21 > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Automatic refresh - IS THIS POSSIBLE? > > > Check out this article from JavaPro magazine. > > "Send Users a Browser Message" > > http://www.javapro.com > > Click "Archives", then select the January 2001 issue from the archives. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sowbhagya Valli Suryadevara > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 5:57 AM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: Automatic refresh - IS THIS POSSIBLE? > > HI, > > We are using the struts & tiles framework in our project. There is a > particular request that consumes a lot of time (20 seconds). Instead of > showing a blank page is it possible to show a "Please Wait " message > while > the processing is happening in the background. Then when the processing > is > over the page should come up automatically. > > IS THIS POSSIBLE? > > Valli > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
