There are 2 different features available: servlet 3.0 allows to process request in a thread different from the container thread. servlet 3.1 allows to read/write into socket without blocking read...

I want to loop through an enumeration containing all of the header names inside a java servlet. My code is as follows: public class ServletParameterServlet extends HttpServlet { @Override protec...

I'm trying asynchronous processing support in servlet 3.1 with GAE J8 standard environment (no extensible environment). Basically I have a servlet annotated with @WebServlet(name = "MyServletName...

I'm doing a project in eclipse with JSF 2.2 and Servlet 3.1 (Java EE7). The first problem I had was a error in the pom.xml in line: <packaging>war</packaging> Error: web.xml is missi...

Until now, as it applies to serving http requests, I thought the terms - asynchronous and non-blocking i/o meant the same thing. But apparently, they have been implemented separately in servlet 3.0...

Let's say I'm writing chunks of data to an HttpServletResponse. So my method receives an array of bytes, I write it to response.getOutputStream(), and then I release the thread. When I receive anot...

In javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet docs, it is mentioned, Allowable HTTP Methods The JSF specification only requires the use of the GET and POST http methods. If your web application does no...

I was reading up on Async servlets 3.1 It is said that the thread that sends the request is freed up when there is lot of time consuming operations to be done for e.g. fetching long list of data ...