Hi, I have a jsp/servlets general question which i haven't been able to sort out. I would be grateful for any help. I would like my functionality to be as: start a task, every so often query the status and display it, when results are ready stop. My java code is an infinite loop which breaks when everything is done and otherwise just keeps checking the status of the task and sleeping a short time. Firstly, would it be possible to control the refresh of a JSP page (that incorporates this code) asynchronously? I could not find that so instead i was trying to set: <META http-equiv="refresh" content="1"> Doing so, I don't know how to resend the status information already gathered to the newly refreshing page so that i get the accumulated status information at every refresh. Thank you in advance for any help, Regards, Gabriela