"trustin" wrote : | I understood how it works, but out of curiosity, why does the Servlet need to talk to JBM via Netty? Isn't it just enough for the Servlet to talk to JBM directly? Perhaps I am missing out something. | The idea, is it's a *generic* Netty proxy over HTTP, not something specific to JBM. Therefore it can't talk to JBM directly or it would be limited to use only with JBM, and couldn't live in the Netty source tree. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4201699#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...