Using rich:progressBar for asyhncronous called method?

[boy18nj]

I am calling asyhncronous method from richfaces. The method do returns after 2 mintues. I am not making syncrhnous call because it would cause timeout transaction.

Is it possible to use rich:progressBar to display current status of asynchronous method execution? I cannot use a:status because it is used soley for syncrhonous calls.

Please point me to the example code so I could implement it easily....

Thanks

[ilya_shaikovsky]

e.g. your process should update periodically some object with the status variable which will reflect the progress(or just update some variable in session map). And progressBar should be defined with value pointed to that variable. then it will poll the server requesting the status from that variable.