BTW - I am not talking about the task for implementation of the APR transport. I'm talking about extending the remoting API so it can deal with any abstract non invocation based model - concrete implementations of this could use APR, Java NBIO or whatever. In my mind the base abstraction for this would be a bi directional "channel", either end of which can have bytes read from/written to in a non blocking fashion. This is similar to what ActiveIO does, and Apache MINA (although wraps it with a lot more abstractions) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3971228#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...