Re: Yet Another Threads & Servlets question but with a JSF twis

[Michael Jouravlev <jm...@gmail.com>]

I suggest changing bgTask.run() to bgTask.start().

On 8/30/06, Geoff Davies <ge...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have JSF managed bean running in a Tomcat 5.5 server on windows xp.
> The code in a nutshell is this:
> EndToEndThread etoE = new EndToEndThread(term,freq,year,month,period);
> bgTask = new Thread(etoE);
> bgTask.run();
> System.err.println(TimeUtils.dateNow() + "Thread is running");
> return result;
>
> The idea was to have the user enter some job parameters and then kick off the
> job in a background thread.  The intention is to then have a refreshable page
> that can display the progress of the background job.
>
> The problem is that it appears the main code (the JSF bean) does not continue
> to run until the background thread is complete.  The threaded task takes some
> time (over a minute) so I was expecting it to run in the background whilst
> letting the JSF page complete.  I tried tricks such making the background
> thread sleep for a few seconds but it doesn't make any difference.  The main
> code is held up until the thread completes.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Geoff.
>
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