From: Dolazy <francis.rammeloo@...>
Date: 2008-10-21T06:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading best practices?

On 20 okt, 22:29, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20.10.2008 21:42, Dolazy wrote:
>
> > I am developing a small GUI application using jruby. It will be used
> > for testing API calls to my company's server. I would like my
> > application to execute server calls in a non-blocking way.
>
> What does the rest of the application do in the meantime?
Anything that the user is doing at that time. I want to avoid freezing
the GUI.

> Not sure what exactly you mean by "InvokeLater".  Do you want to pass
> the result of method calls back to the calling thread?

Yes, that's exactly what I have in mind.

> Another option is to set up a Queue for feedback which is queried from
> the main thread.  It all depends on what you application does or what
> you want to achieve.  Can you give more detail?

For example, one of the first calls will be the login method. In a
worker thread I want to send the login message, receive the response,
and then notify the main thread of either a successful or failed
login, by means of invoking the corresponding callback.