On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Markus KARG wrote:
> Jan,
>
> just scanned the public draft of the spec and did not find the word "push" a
> single time! How did you come to the conclusion that the async API will
> allow you to implement frequent server pushes ontop of it?
I thought that was one of the motivations behind it and Bill mentions it as one in his Oct 9th talk on Infoq.
Jan
>
> Regards
> Markus
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jan Algermissen [mailto:jan.algermissen_at_nordsc.com]
>> Sent: Freitag, 12. Oktober 2012 16:11
>> To: jsr339-experts_at_jax-rs-spec.java.net
>> Subject: [jsr339-experts] Re: How are suspended responses usually
>> managed?
>>
>>
>> On Oct 12, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/12/2012 9:38 AM, Jan Algermissen wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> when a response is suspended by the async API the request handing
>> thread is being 'released from duty' and can continue serving requests.
>>>>
>>>> So far I understand. What I am not entirely clear about is what
>> happens with the suspended response - will these be 'parked' in an
>> extra thread? Or will there be one thread for each suspended response?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Its up to you and your application. That's the idea.
>>
>> Ok, yes.
>>
>> Sorry for being stupid.. but:
>>
>> - so when I suspend a response without invoking a new thread nothing
>> happens except that a connection is being used
>> (meaning that a queue of 1000 responses would use up 1000
>> connections)
>>
>> - when I resume the response, the response will be sent in the current
>> thread of execution.
>>
>> That's simple, but I find the implications not so easy to see at first.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> What I would love to be able to do is to suspend/resume again.
>> Considering server push, it seems odd that I can have a long running
>> request without resource consumption *until* the first bits of the
>> response are sent. What if I want to send one event every Minute? The
>> initial async doesn't really buy me that much, does it?
>>
>> (just trying to get my head straight)
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bill Burke
>>> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
>>> http://bill.burkecentral.com
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