[jboss-user] [JBoss Web Services] - How to implement long polling/server push with JBoss

[Alexander Bätz]

laures [http://community.jboss.org/people/laures] created the discussion

"How to implement long polling/server push with JBoss"

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Hi,

i want to use http server push / long polling / whatever its called right now, in my next webservice.

one way (a very bad, non scaling way) to do that is like this:

@WebService(serviceName="mywebservice")

@Stateless
public class MyWebService {
    @WebMethod
    public String longPoll() {
         short ct = 0;
         while(someCondition == false && ct < 60) {
             sleep(1000);  // 1 sec
             ct++;
         }
         if (someCondition)
             return "got value";
         else
             return "";
    }
}

As i said, this dowsn't scale, but should demonstrate what i want to do. I've been looking for an alternative way and found two interesting things:


* i can create an asyncronous response with servlets:  http://docs.jboss.org/resteasy/docs/1.0.2.GA/userguide/html/Asynchronous_HTTP_Request_Processing.html http://docs.jboss.org/resteasy/docs/1.0.2.GA/userguide/html/Asynchronous_HTTP_Request_Processing.html but i would like to use stateless session beans for my webservice (its so nice and simple....)
* Somebody pointed me at the APR Connector for jboss and mentioned it could do what i want. unfortuantely i couldn't find any examples for apr, so i don't know if thats correct (and if it is, how it would be done)

I hope you can point me in the right direction.
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