2011
January
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Running Long-Running Reports with JMS
At a recent meeting of the Oklahoma City JUG, I was asked by a member how her group could "script" JSF report generation. After a couple of questions, I figured what she really wanted: she wanted a way to allow users to request reports in an ad hoc manner, as opposed to the reports being run on a schedule. In a general sense, this is a pretty easy question to answer, but I’ve run into situations where the reports take a long time to run — and I’m sure she will, as well — making a web interface for generating the report less useful (due to timeouts, etc). In this entry, we’ll take a look at one way to handle that.