Hi, I have been trying to write a Comet webapp, but it's not totally clear to me when and how CometEvents are exactly triggered. According to the documentation a "typical life cycle of a Comet request will consist in a series of events such as: BEGIN -> READ -> READ -> READ -> ERROR/TIMEOUT" (from: http://www.mbaworld.com/docs/aio.html).
It seems that a READ event is triggered only by a POST request, but the "event flow" that I am getting never triggers more that one READ event in a row, for example: BEGIN-> ->READ->END, BEGIN-> ->READ->END, etc. Is the way a comet application should work? So you have to establish a new connection every time you get a response from the server and wait for the next response, process it and start from the beginning? My idea was having one connection and reuse that connection for multiple requests. So on the client side there would be something like the following code: <script> var xhr; function init() { xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); }); function triggerEvent() { xhr.open("POST", "/servlets/cometservlet", true); xhr.send("something"); } </script> <input type="button" onclick="triggerEvent" /> Since it is not possible to invoke xhr.send() several times without opening the connection first (xhr.open()), a CometEvent.BEGIN is always triggered first. So how can the "BEGIN -> READ -> READ -> READ" series (given in the documentation) be implemented? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org