Expose current progress of an @Asynchronous function to use in View
In my JEE6-App (running on Glassfish 3.0.1) I have an EmailEJB which has to send lots of mails. The mails are sent asynchronously, so its annotated with the new EJB3.1 @Asynchronous, letting it be run in a separate Thread. Now i want the user to be informed about the current status of the method: How many mails have already been sent? Sending the mails asynchronously works fine, but i can't figure out how to let the progress be accessible from outside. Seems like my approach to do that is quite wrong, but somehow it has to be possible (maybe another approach). This is how my EmailEJB currently