OK, for those of you following this thread, I ended up getting this to work, although it's kind of ugly IMHO.
In splashAction, I cram the form containing the data from input.jsp into the request, then forward to splash.jsp, which keeps the data in hidden fields (populated by the previous form). The "onload" event handler in the "body" tag of splash.jsp automatically submits the form to longAction.do (the action that needed the data in the first place). There is a bit of lag time (0.5 to 1 second) in displaying the splash screen, but the browser (I've tried this with Mozilla and IE) then displays the splash screen until the results are ready. Thanks to those who responded to my original post. I wanted to try subclassing the ActionServlet as suggested, but I needed to get this and several other things done by the end of the week. Dhruva --- "Dhruva B. Reddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, let me ask this: > > Let's say that I have input.jsp, which goes to longAction.do, which > in > turn forwards to long_results.jsp when finished. I've noticed that > the > contents of input.jsp remain displayed after the submit button is > clicked, until the contents of input.jsp are ready for the browser to > load. > > I have tried to take advantage of this by creating an intermediate > action, splashAction.do, which forwards to splash.jsp, which in turn > forwards to longAction.do (I have a jsp:forward tag at the end of > splash.jsp). splashAction.do is invoked by the submit button on > input.jsp. I would expect the contents of splash.jsp to be displayed > until the contents of long_results.jsp are ready for display. Yet the > contents of input.jsp remain displayed until long_results.jsp is > ready, > just as before--I never see splash.jsp. > > Can anyone tell me why this didn't work? > > Thanks, > Dhruva > > --- "Dhruva B. Reddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an Action that could potentially take a long time to > execute, > > and would like to display a splash screen until the results of the > > action are ready. > > > > I went googling for this, but I can't seem to find a solution that > > would fit within the Struts framework. Has anyone done this > before? > > > > Thanks, > > Dhruva > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
