[Simpleweb-Support] Non Executor-based Asynchronous Service

[Luis A. <lan...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have read through the section on Asynchronous Services located at
http://www.simpleframework.org/doc/tutorial/tutorial.php. I notice that the
example uses a java.util.concurrent.Executor to spawn the asynchronous
task. Is it possible to do the same without using a thread-based approach?
That is, can we achieve the same result using a Selector and NIO?

For example, I thought about using the SocketChannel associated with the
Request to register with a Selector, but I cannot see any way to access
that SocketChannel.

I am trying to allow potentially many requests to remain suspended for long
periods of time. If I start a new thread for every request, this becomes
resource-intensive and expensive. Using NIO, I could have just a single
separate thread that monitors the Selector.

Any help you could provide would be much appreciated. By the way, thanks
for contributing such great software!

Luis