Re: Which scales better? J2EE, PHP, or CGIDEV2?

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Den 07/10/10 19.42, Aaron Bartell skrev:
> This is an interesting concept, but how do they do that without
> requiring some sort of asynchronous approach where the server
> communicates back with the client in a new request? (basically
> switching roles)
>
> Does it require special code on the client?  Does it require the
> client to poll the server?
It is possible with the non-blocking NIO libraries which was introduced 
a while back.  I am not familiar with the details, but the Jetty 
implementors called it Continuations when doing the work for Jetty 6.

There is a write-up at http://www.infoq.com/news/jetty-6-release.