Java servlet and server sent events

Question

Is it possible to create a server sent event using java servlets so that a client could receive updates using:

Answer 1

this does the trick.

HTML

Servlet :

import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;




public class sse extends HttpServlet
{
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
{
    try
    {
        System.out.println("SSE Demo");
        response.setContentType("text/event-stream");

        PrintWriter pw = response.getWriter();
        int i=0;
        while(true)
        {

            i++;
            pw.write("event: server-time\n\n");  //take note of the 2 \n 's, also on the next line.
            pw.write("data: "+ i + "\n\n");
            System.out.println("Data Sent!!!"+i);
            if(i>10)
            break;
        }
        pw.close();

    }catch(Exception e){
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)  
{
    doPost(request,response);
}

}