Hi Randy, There's basically two distinict approaches to solving this problem, neither is specific to Struts...
(1) The server-based approach. This is along the lines of your meta refresh in that you kick off some server process and have the client periodically poll for a status. This is more complex to implement but is probably the more client-friendly approach because (a) it will be more accessible to more people (i.e., no scripting and things of that nature) and (b) give you the ability, should you choose to allow it, to let users go away and come back later. (2) The client-side approach. There are multiple ways to do it under this same umbrella... a. Target the form submission to a new window. Have the target of the form be the "Processing..." page, and when that returns, in response to the onLoad event, do the *real* form submission that does the processing. b. Have a hidden layer on your page that has that "Processing..." markup in it. When the form is submitted, hide all the contents on the page and show that hidden layer. c. Other permutations of either of the above. I've had occassion to do both and I can honestly say that unless you have that need to allow users to come back later, I would go with the client-side approach. It winds up being quite a bit simpler to do and works just about as well. -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Fri, September 16, 2005 2:40 pm, Randy Shepherd said: > Hey Guys.. > > Pretty basic question here. I am looking for suggestions how to display > an orbitz-style processing page while the server process a request. The > user is submitting a form with credit card and address information for > a purchase and there are several partner systems which may take up to a > few seconds to complete their tasks. While we are waiting, I want to > display some sort of page with an animated gif telling the user to be > patient. > > I have accomplished this before in a model 1 architecture using a JS > meta-refresh tag. I am not sure that is the best way in Struts. What do > you think? > > Thanks, > Randy > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
