JSR 315 aka Servlet 3.0 support?

[genman]

I'm wondering if and when JBossWeb will support JSR 315 or Servlets 3.0, specifically the support for Async operations?

[henk53]

"genman" wrote:
I'm wondering if and when JBossWeb will support JSR 315 or Servlets 3.0, specifically the support for Async operations?

First Java EE 6 has to be released. This probably happens in 2011, maybe a little earlier if we are lucky but not much earlier. Definitely not this year.

Then Jboss has to implement the spec. Nobody but Jboss knows how long this will take. Last time it was 3 years, so you'll be looking at 2014 then. For this time though, Jboss promised to be much faster, so maybe it's going to be 2011.

[jfclere]

We are working on it, but the spec's are not yet final so we can't give a date for the moment.

[henk53]

We are working on it, but the spec's are not yet final so we can't give a date for the moment.

I understand that. Any chance for a technical 'preview', like the WebBeans team has done for Jboss AS 5.1?

[henk53]

Any news on this issue?

[genman]

You can sort of do async operations already with JBoss Web but it requires you run using the platform native library connector.

It'd be pretty cool if there was support for this using pure Java. I'm guessing requiring the use of NIO or maybe something like Netty.