Asusming you want something smooth-looking, you would anyway want to spend some time with tacos Tapestry-AJAX components. The examples on the web are pretty complex, so the easiest route for you would be, I think to download the demo app from the homepage, which is war-file which contains a lot of examples together with source code and of course directory layout et.c. Copy from there and you might get up and running quickly with a "smooth" application.
I would recommend having a state object in your tapestry pages for the chat, maybe a Hashtable for user -> messagelist or something like that. For pointers on that I think it is described in the first four (free! :) chapters from Kent's EWDWT; http://agileskills2.org/EWDT/ Cheers, PS On 5/22/06, Mário Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I want to implement a chat. I was thinking about doing REST requests between clients and the object handling the chat. For instance, client would request a chat conversation by doing an HTTP POST http://host/ChatHandler?request=true On the servers side (Tapestry therefore), how should I do this? Simply use a Servlet, create an asset or an engine service? The server sends an http response to the client too and must keep objects alive to keep a record of the chat. Thanks for your help. -- Mário --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
