Auto refresh web page

Question

I have a web page which allows the user to carry out various operations that in turn modify the database. Also, this web application needs to keep track of various fields in dat

Answer 1

I think you need something similar to Reverse AJAX now popularly known as Comet. It is server pushing the data to the client instead of browser polling the data from the server/database. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) has a good introduction. There are already many frameworks (e.g. DWR, ICEFaces) that support this pattern.