Due to the ever shifting priorites from management, I haven't been able to work on this issue again until now. Anyway, this week I started working again on displaying a "please wait" message using Bear Bibeault's advise of a simply displaying a hidden message.
However, not being familiar with JavaScript, I had a hard time figuring out how to do that. So in case someone does a search on this topic, and wants to know how to display a "please wait" message, here's is how I got it to work.
In your
JSP, add the following:
<script language="JavaScript">
function displayWait() {
var waitDiv = document.getElementById("wait");
waitDiv.style.display = "inline";
var msgDiv = document.getElementById("message");
msgDiv.style.display = "none";
return true;
}