Hi All, I have got a basic question related to usage of Async servlet with tomcat NIO connector.
I want to use Async servlet with Non Block I/O as per servlet spec https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/tutorial/servlets013.htm?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_pulse_read%3BmL0Q5Y7ESTy4lpYPU%2Br77w%3D%3D Such that the http worker threads are released and the container threads won't be sitting idle for I/O operations too. I am on Tomcat 7. As i understand the default tomcat connector (BIO) is a blocking one and is on a thread per connection model. I am not clear on whether using async Non Blocking I/o in servlets won't suffice ? Won't the http worker threads be released here or will it be held for the lifetime of the connection ? NIO connector will use request per threads or allocate threads when processing is required .Will using NIO selector only release the http worker threads if it is used in conjunction with Asynchronous Non blocking I/O servlets ? Best Regards, Saurav
