On Jun 19, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Rémy Maucherat wrote:

> 2014-06-18 23:40 GMT+02:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>:
> 
>> I have been thinking about connector refactoring for Tomcat 9. Currently
>> BIO is planned to be dropped due to the number of features in the
>> servlet spec that rely on non-blocking IO.
>> 
>> I would like to propose dropping support for Comet in Tomcat 9 onwards.
>> The reasons are:
>> - WebSocket is already far more popular (based on question volume on the
>> users list)
>> - Comet support adds a fair amount of complexity to the connector code
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Keep in mind that 8.0.x isn't stable yet and any 9.0.x is likely to be
>> several years away.
>> 
> Yes, of course, that API is only a precursor to Servlet 3.1, and is now
> fully replaced. Most likely existing code can be ported over to Servlet 3.1
> rather easily.
> 
> Rémy

+1


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