Servlet 3.x - Async Servlets

In our last post, I touched on AsyncServlet and used it to implement a Comet Application. I decided to go into the feature into a bit more depth.

Reverse AJAX - The Comet Technique

In my series on Reverse AJAX, I covered Polling and Piggybacking. We saw the pros and cons of either technique. In this post I shall take a look at a third technique - Comet.

Reverse AJAX - Using the Piggback Technique

In the previous post we saw how reverse AJAX was achieved using the polling technique. Although easy, this is not a very popular or scalable solution. An alternative approach is the Piggback Technique.

Reverse AJAX - what and how ?

I had only heard about the concept of reverse AJAX before. So when I started looking at servlets async behavior I was tempted to check out this concept.

Servlet 3.x - Using MultipartConfig for file uploads

In an earlier post, I had written on performing file upload and download using Spring MVC. In that example I used commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar. This is because Servlets did not have built in support for File upload operation. However Servlets 3.x provides support - as a part of the specs. So no need to include any additional jars. I decided to try an example of the same.