I just bumped into the whole concept of SPDY this morning, and it sounds fabulous, and I'm quite happy to see that it's already underway in trunk. I'm quite likely to be using a lot of development using Vaadin framework in the near future, which I expect probably stands to benefit significantly from SPDY. However, it seems that SPDY support in java is a wee tad nascent. As I understand it, there's an issue with oracle JDK support for NPN that is forcing tomcat to use APR. I also notice that Jetty has just released a version that supports SPDY using the NPN that is apparently in OpenJDK 7 already (will it appear in an oracle java update?). Clearly this is a key innovation, and it looks like between Apache Hhttpd and Chrome/Firefox/Safari, more than 50% of the web will support it on both client and server merely by staying up to date with their current software.
My question is this: will SPDY support be released in some form before Tomcat 8 (in who's branch it seems to currently live)? JSR 340 (servlet 3.1) seems to be targeting Q3 2012 and I would presume that that means tomcat 8 is no sooner than Q3 or Q4 - 2012. Seems a shame to make this wait until that time (assuming it's anywhere near ready). -Gus
