Asynchronous Restful Webapplication
This blog annotates the Jetty 7 example web application that uses Jetty asynchronous HTTP client and the proposed suspendable servlets 3.0 API, to call an eBay restful web service. The technique combines the Jetty asynchronous HTTP client with the Jetty servers ability to suspend servlet processing, so that threads are not held while waiting for rest responses. Thus threads can handle many more requests and web applications using this technique should obtain at least ten fold increases in performance.[Read More]
Posted at 05:59AM Aug 15, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[4]