VAADIN 7: What is the simplest way to refresh a Vaadin View in 5 minute intervals?

Question

I\'m trying to implement an automatic refresh on a List of components in a Vaadin view. The list gets its contents from a database. I can refresh the list with a button, that is

Answer 1

You could do so that you call

myUI.setPollInterval(300000);

when the view is activated, and you disable it by calling

myUI.setPollInterval(-1);

when another view is activated. If you use Vaadin Navigator, then you could use ViewChangeListener for handling the polling.