Avoiding Timeouts with Java Beans.

Question

I've the following problem : I've a bean which write some informations to an Excel file.
Sometimes data should be dumped are a lot and it takes more than the FORMS_TIMEOUT time, then the session ends with many problems (it crashes).
Is there any way to avoid this ?
Can I use the Timeout PJC to solve that problem ?
Tks
Tullio

Answer 1

how about writing this in a thread?
If you want to wait for finishing the execution, you can do the following:
write the whole stuff which creates the excel file in a thread, and start this thread in a method. call this method from forms. in another method you join the thread for e.g. 100 msecs, and return if the thread is alive...
public class MyClass
  MyThread thread = new MyThread();
  private class MyThread extends Thread
    public void run()
      for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
         Thread.sleep(1000);
  public void startThread()
    thread.start();
  public boolean waitForFinish()
    thread.join(10); //wait 10msecs for the thread to finish
    return(thread.isAlive()); //return the thread status
}and finally in your form:
fbean.invoke('item', 1, 'startThread');
while fbean.invoke_bool('item', 1, 'waitForFinish') loop //wait as long as the thread is not finished without buisywait
  null;
end loop;regards