Over at the
Servlet 3.0 spec lead's blog (
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mode/archive/2008/12/asynchronous_su.html#comments) there's a post regarding the Asynchronous support ... It offers an example of using the AsyncContext to wait for a Web Service to return:
I posed my question as follows ... maybe someone here can offer insight:
This may be just my ignorance ... but ... from the code here, it looks like the request handling is going to spawn a
thread that sits around until the web service returns and then render the response ... isn't the point of having the non-blocking IO to avoid consuming threads while we wait?
Or am I missing something???
Best ... and Happy New Year ...