We have an export process (exporting some data out of database into a text file). User clicks a link, give some input especially some fromto dates and browse a text file, then clicks ok. Now the export process starts. Sometimes it may take a while to complete this process.
As we are porting our application from Powerbuilder app... Users are used to seeing progress bar. Is there any way we can do progress bar here? Do we advice doing progress bar in j2ee-web-apps?
Other option they might be ok is... We can show a static message like "Process is in progress..." and change the message to "Process Complete" once it completes. Now the user does not want to sit in the page waiting, instead they would like to goahead with other links without them manually spawning another session/window. At the click we can open another
JSP and keep in a separate HTTP
thread. Is this a good idea?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.