server-side caching to avoid losing client work-in-progress

"Dean, Michael D." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.servlet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
We have a web application where users often take an extended period of time,
due to research needs and info gathering, to populate a target document
before saving to the server side. Often, the system timeout expires or local
gremlins occur, etc.. We've discussed using notification pop-ups and a
JavaScript timer to "advise" the users to save their work but what if the
user has walked away from the desktop when the pop-up emerges?   I'm
wondering if there are viable strategies for auto-magically flushing
in-process work to the server-side for caching within the ServletContext?
What would be a viable key for storing the in-process work object in the SC?

Anybody got any primers on this topic?


TIA,

Michael Dean
Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform
Washington State Department of Corrections
ph: 360-570-6928
fx:  360-586-1333
mailto://[email protected]

"Iron sharpeneth iron;
        so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend"
                             - Proverbs 27:17

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