Asyncronous Communication Over the WWW

[scostell]

Okay I'm sure the Subject didn't make much sense let me try to explain it better.

I'm trying to create this Fantasy Sports DraftBoard that will update itself. Currently I have a WebPage that does this but since webpages are stateless I had to set the it to refresh every so often to get the latest information.
And this way just is too slow. and a heavy load on the server.

What I'm looking for is a way for the Server (via a program or the database) to send an asyncronous message to the client. When the client would recieve this message it would update the DraftBoard automatically. can I do this over the Internet?

Like have the Client Download and install a program to their Hard Drive that will connect to a webservice that can communicate with each Client?

Forgive me if I sound like i have no idea what i'm talking about. Cause It's true. I'm trying to learn this stuff, but there is alot of it!!

If my method won't work is there a better way of doing what I want to do. Maybe Use Java(which I would have to learn)?

[Cander]

You could this with Web Services as you can do Async calls with them, but if the client you are talking about is a web browser, then you can do that.

[scostell]

Yea I know I can't use the webbrowser for that. I figured I could just have the Client download the DraftBoard Program from the browser and then Hook it up to the webservice from his computer.

Thanks for Confirming