Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

[Matt Welsh]

Michael Thome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Agreed - beginners *do* tend to use too many threads, 

This has nothing to do with "beginners"!

Currently, you *cannot* write a Web server in Java without using one 
thread per socket connection. You can limit the number of "active" 
connections, and queue up new incoming connections until a thread in
your "pool" becomes available, but eventually this does not scale, 
and your users get angry at the long wait times. 

The solution is to either (a) fix threads or (b) introduce nonblocking
I/O into Java. We (the expert group for JSR 51) is currently doing (b).
I am proposing that (a) is useful as well.

Matt Welsh


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