As a relative newbie in the Java world, I am finding many things frustratingly obtuse to accomplish that are relatively trivial in many other frameworks. A primary example i
I just stumbled upon the asynchronous HTTP client implemented within Geronimo. You might also want to take a look it, at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/geronimo/sandbox/AsyncHttpClient/ - Caveat: the latest commit seems over a year old.
Another project building an asynchronous HTTP client is xsocket: xsocket.sourceforge.net