Hopbot log for 2008-04-13 - Helma IRC channel: #helma on irc.freenode.net
2008-04-13:
[18:58] <bentaber> I'm very new to helma, but so far it looks great. I'm playing with the new continuation features in 1.6.2... and I'm wondering if I can flush the response buffer and then hang on to the request for some interval before sending more data down the buffer. Basically trying to implement "comet" using helma[18:59] <bentaber> I know nothing of the underlying java servlet objects I can take advantage, but I figure it has to be possible :)
[19:01] <zumbrunn> hi bentaber
[19:01] <bentaber> Hello
[19:01] <zumbrunn> I'm not sure, so you'll better also ask on the mailing list, so Hannes can respond, but...
[19:02] <zumbrunn> I believe the continuation support Hannes has implemented only works over multiple independent requests
[19:03] <zumbrunn> helma isn't really holding on to the same request
[19:03] <bentaber> Ok. I'll be sure to ask on the mailing list too. Just subscribed. I'll continue playing around to see what I can figure out. Thanks for the quick response.
[19:05] <zumbrunn> part of the current limitations regarding continuations hangs together with the fact that Helma 1.x still uses an old Jetty version
[19:05] <zumbrunn> one from before continuation support was added to Jetty
[19:06] <zumbrunn> there is a reason why Hannes didn't switch to Jetty 6
[19:06] <zumbrunn> he explained it to me once a long time ago, but I forgot :-(
[19:06] <bentaber> Really. It looks like this is farily well documented for Jetty 6, so I was hoping to try and work in some of those concepts
[19:07] <zumbrunn> right, so, good to bring this up on the mailing list
[19:07] <bentaber> yep.
[19:07] <bentaber> thanks again...
[19:08] <zumbrunn> welcome to helma land :-)
[19:09] <bentaber> very cool stuff. I've basically spent the last 5 years writing javascript on the server using this crazy environment called ASP + JScript ;).. Needless to say I am looking for an upgrade, and it's definitely not jscript.net