Hi,
I'm able to poll the server by calling a
servlet at regular intervals to see if new data has come in from other clients.
But this is a little inefficient, and theres always a delay for the client.
Is it possible to poll a servlet once, and use a timer to
test for new data, so it can then return information to the client?
I'm not sure how to do this, cause even if I start a timer in a servlet, the servlet code will just complete and the response is returned.
So I want to know if I can delay this using timers.
I'm not able to use comet either on my web hosting, so I'm looking at alternatives... thanks for any help.