Stopping an action

[Al...@divintech.com]

This is not necessarily a Struts problem, but since I am using Struts for 
this.. I was wondering if anyone could give me a hand.. 

How would I stop an action that has already started executing ? In other 
words, say the user started an action, which is fairly long and processor 
intensive. In order to make the app more responsive I just start a 
separate thread to do the work. However, I wonder, how can the user stop 
the thread that was started from executing ? For example, the user selects 
an action, its starts executing (as I mentioned it is quite i/o + 
processor intensive), and the user suddenly realizes that he/she has 
selected the wrong thing... It is not like it is a regular application, 
where they could kill the process on their local machine... 
I was thinking of putting together something like a monitor, that would 
enable the user to kill the job, but it seems kinda crude... Does anyone 
know a good approach to this ? Any hints would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks,

Alex Kotchnev
Diversified Information Technologies

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