how to create background process 2007-11-07 - By Giovanni Azua
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Hi,
Martin Gainty wrote:
> Encapsulate the long running resource in run() method of a Thread here is a
> good example
> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Threads/applet/
>
> M--
>
I think the Java Servlet specification discourages such misbehavior
(creating threads explicitly):
Copied from Java Servlet Spec Version 2.5 Page 14:
"A servlet container may place security restrictions on the environment
in which a servlet
executes. In a Java Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE, v.1.3 or above) or
Java Platform,
Enterprise Edition (Java EE, v.1.3 or above) environment, these
restrictions should
be placed using the permission architecture defined by the Java
platform. For example,
high-end application servers may limit the creation of a Thread object
to insure that
other components of the container are not negatively impacted."
That you could spawn thread within Tomcat does not mean you should.
I think too that executeandwait would be the way to go, the showcase
includes an example.
To achieve an executeandNOTwait asynchronous effect my wild guess would
be in this
case to spawn a hidden action that is not associated with any view so
the user will not
notice it is being executed (giving the asynchronous effect).
Implicitly you are spawning
a new thread within the Servlet container but in a safe way. I think the
executeandwait
would not apply in this case because the user does not would not want to
see the
outcome of the action i.e. wait for it to complete.
For the second case probably the way would be adding to the relevant JSP
something like:
<s:action name="fileDownloadAsync" executeResult="false" /> or is there
a cleaner way in S2.
regards,
Giovanni
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