What is the difference between Tomcat's BIO Connector and NIO Connector?

Question

I would like to know the internals of the tomcat NIO connector. How exactly are threads used when we create a servlet that implements CometProcessor?Is it still one thread p

Answer 1

Here are two good articles on the NIO connector in case this helps someone considering the differences between BIO (request processing is bound to accept thread) & NIO (request processing is passed onto another worker thread) in Tomcat.

• NIO Connector via Tomcat Expert site
• Overview of Tomcat connectors (PDF)