"ovidiu.feodorov(a)jboss.com" wrote : | Bill and Tom raised good issues. Where is the cutt-off line? For what number of clients an asynchronous non-blocking server-side approach becomes more efficient than the current model? | If we want to compete in the "enterprise" market (large telcos / banks) I suggest we need to support 1000s of connections, in which case I very much doubt a blocking approach is going to work well. If we're happy living in the small office, hobby user market then sticking with blocking might be an acceptable route IMHO. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3979335#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...